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INTERVIEW: Cordova Page 38 they were taught. My husband was taught to respect the older ones. That is why his half-brother and sisters all called him brother. He was the older one. He was from another wife. I don't know how old he was when he married his second wife and he had these children. They always called him brother because he was older. Then when we were married they called me sister. So we was always, to this day when they see us, they always call me sister, very respectful like. So my husband would always make the children stand and wait for Grandpa. Carl would say, 'I am so hungry! ' 'Never mind, you wait for Grandpa.' So Grandpa would come in after he sat down, the children would sit down. One of the kids would say, 'I don't like this.' My father would say, 'You eat that,' and they would look at their dad, 'Daddy, do I have to eat that?' He said, 'You heard what Grandpa said.' So, you see, he even gave my father authority over his own children above him in that respect. This is one thing that I admire about my husband, was his respect for older people. This is the way that they were taught. BM Were you accepted with his parents, his father? EC Yes. In fact, I had someone say to me at one time, I got very well acquainted with this girl and her father, her stepfather / was a friend of Mr. Cordova's, that is, my husband's father or my father-in-law. This girl says to me long after my father-in-