Interviewer-"There's high school that was closer to your house, but you couldn't go to it?" Ms. Rizo-Right. Interviewer-"And, you have to go to the one downtown?" Ms. Rizo-Downtown. Interviewer-"What was that like?" Ms. Rizo-Well, we accepted it cause it was our reality and it was up to our families whether we got the support or encouragement to go or not. I know everyday now, the older I get the advantages I had because of how I was raised as a child, because I was raised as an only child and my mother didn't make anymore money than anybody else did and my grandparents/grandfather couln't work anymore cause he been disabled on his job. Interviewer-"What did your mother do for a living?" Ms. Rizo-She worked in a dress factory, all of my growing up years, she worked in a dress factory, but we had to walk from our house all the way to Singleton and Burnell Drive to catch the bus. Know that the bus goes to [?] trail, one of my cousins, God rest his soul, we buried him last year, he was finally happy that I gotten him registered to vote and getting him out to vote, I had to bug him all the time to go vote, fought me tooth and nail, but finally I said, "Do you want to continue riding the bus and have to walk a mile to get to the bus stop, he said, "No, of course not." I said, "Well, [?]" He says, "What am I voting for?" I said,"You're voting on DART." You know, the rapid transit, we can change the routes, we can, you know, Hey says, "Well, ther're just going to raise the taxes" Of course they are, you know, you're not getting anything for free. Afterwards, that the bus route was changed and the bus stopped right in front of my aunt's house, he thanked me profusely, he said, "I'll never fight you about voting again." He says, "Now, all I have to do is go across the street to go catch the bus." So, I mean, my life is full of experiences like that, but what I was saying about my mom is that other people made the same money that my mother did, but they had three, four, five, six kids to support and their was no such thing as the mom working out of the home if your married because their was so many kids, never be able to pay a babysitter, you know, so the mom had to stay at home and do all the cleaning and cooking, and washing, but yea, no mystery got paid because the teachers kept getting their car stuck in the mud. Interviewer-"But, you said you were an only child and that's why...." Ms. Rizo-I was raised as an only child. My parents divorced, they married too young and so, they were divorced when I was a toddler and my father got drafted into the army and was sent off to Colorado to Fort Collins, no, Fort Carson, Colorado and so, he fell in love with Colorado and never wanted to come back to Texas. Of course, he did eventually to visit and stuff but, um, and he started a second family out there, then my mother re-married when I was six and then, she started a second family when I was twelve. So, as an adult, I have eleven brothers and sisters, but that's why I was raised as an only child. So, but, I always had clean clothes when my clothes tore or wore out, I got new ones and my grandmother made sure that I was combed and pressed and you know all of that sort of thing. I was kind of like the princess, you know, but I was raised in a Mexican conservative Catholic culture, so I was not to speak unless I was spoken to and the way I'm sitting may be proper right now, but as a child I was not allowed to lean back in the chair or cross my legs at the knee, you had to, I was straight back, cross your ankles, and have your hands on your lap, and you better not slouch. Interviewer-"Lol" Ms. Rizo-I mean that's what I'm saying is that, there are advantages and disadvantages of being raised as an only child and being a girl, ok, so......