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SF:
Was her father alive then?
CH:
Yes, he was.
SF:
Okay.
OH:
And I know it was a very hard time for her parents and also for Lisa, for all
of us. He was precious, he was a wonderful young man, and it was a really big loss. Um, her father’s death was later. It was after Lisa was back in Dallas and I don’t really know what happened with that.

SF:
Okay, but it was sometime later?
CH:
Yeah, it was several years later, many years later.
SF:
Let me ask you this, and, because we’ve had some, was her mother an
alcoholic?

CH:
Her parents were both alcoholics. When I became friends with Lisa, when
we girls, her parents, neither of her parents drank at that point. They were both recovering alcoholics, as a matter of fact, we used to go to AA parties. I went
with her. This is when we were adolescents, urn, probably seventh, eighth
grade, and her parents at that point were really fun to be around and they still liked to go out and dance and play, but they were not drinking at that time. Although, I know that they did have, she had a lot of problems with that when she was younger.

SF:
Lisa had problems with drinking?
OH:
No, with her parent’s drinking.
SF:
Oh, okay, just for a little, just so we can get a flavor for, you know. All right,
I don’t mean to interrupt, but then, now we’re into the early eighties, she’s into the Scientology thing, and she sometimes explain to you where she is in this whole process of the church of Scientology, did you understand it to be a process?

CH:
Yeah, um, I think so. I hadn’t read anything about Scientology at that point,
so the only thing I knew about it then was what she told me, and what she was talking about were basically exercises and lessons, and they all sounded very positive, and I know that she felt that they were.

SF:
And did she go to these, were they classes, or at somebody’s house?
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