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Side three.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2509/collection_resources/113615/file/216621#t=4.13,6.92"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2509/collection_resources/113615/file/216621/transcript/61433/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sig Frucht: So, uh, I told Earl, I said, I don't care what you do with them avocados.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2509/collection_resources/113615/file/216621#t=6.92,11.24"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2509/collection_resources/113615/file/216621/transcript/61433/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I can't sell them here. So I hung up on him, couldn't answer me back, but that went on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2509/collection_resources/113615/file/216621#t=11.24,16.73"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2509/collection_resources/113615/file/216621/transcript/61433/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My wife and I went to Florida for a week.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2509/collection_resources/113615/file/216621#t=16.73,19.85"},{"id":"https://houstonlibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2509/collection_resources/113615/file/216621/transcript/61433/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carl Pawate and his wife took us to dinner one night in a restaurant, that was his load of 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