 Well, my full name is Alexandrina McComb. I've never been called Alexandrina from the day I was born. It was Sandra. I think the first real memory I have is I was a little girl and we had immigrated from Scotland and I was probably about maybe two and a half, three years old, maybe three. And I went to see my dad was coming home from work and my mom let me run ahead and meet my dad and behind his bag he was holding something and then he pulled out in a little plastic bag a little goldfish in water and that was a little... but that is, I think, my first real memory. The house that I really grew up in, my family home was our first house in New Westminster that we actually bought. When we immigrated from Scotland we rented in Vancouver and then we rented in New Westminster and when I was eight years old we bought a house and we lived there from when I was eight until I was sixteen and it was a small little house but I think it was the happiest time of my life. Really? It was so small but we were so thankful and proud because coming from Scotland and kind of lower income you would never expect to own a home. I have two younger brothers and they loved us all very much and we went to church on Sunday and I'm very close to my brothers and very thankful. They're wonderful men and wonderful brothers to me. I was very shy. I was very insecure. You know I had friends but I think I was a little too sensitive for my own good. I felt things too deeply. I felt hurts too deeply. I was twenty-two and I met a fellow. He was in the U.S. Navy but is stationed at Whitby Island. He was from Houston, Texas and I met him at a nightclub and it was a girlfriend who was dating a friend of his that introduced me. I fell in love and I think he fell in love. He was the most beautiful man I ever saw in my life and we were together for quite some time and he asked me to marry him and then we were going to get married. He was stationed after this period to San Diego and we were going to get married in San Diego and he left and I never heard from him again. I sent a card because I knew his mom's address but it was just returned and I don't know if they had moved. I don't know the situation. I'd rather start by saying that you've only been married once. Yes. Yes? Yes. So how did you meet? At a nightclub. Yes, I did. I was there with a couple of my girlfriends and he was there with a buddy of his and he was such a gentleman. He sent all of us myself and my two girlfriends a drink. He sent us over a drink. He was really classy and then he came over and he asked me to dance and that was it. After about six months, I don't know if I wasn't feeling it wasn't really working or he wasn't. I think it was kind of maybe a mutual thing. We were always friends. We traveled together platonically. I think it was along the beach and he said to me, he says, you know, Sand, he said, I can see us maybe retiring here for part of the year when we're older. I just kind of looked at him like, what? Then I thought and I didn't say anything and I didn't really make a face but I thought, what? And then I thought, well, I can't imagine being old without him. Oh my God. We got married the next year. That's beautiful. It was just because we were older when we got married. We were both 44. I think my biggest regret, especially since James is gone that we didn't maybe have children but I just thought as a woman at 44 it was a little too late and I think James, it's funny, we never really discussed it but I think it was just kind of a given. We had a cat for a long time. That's why you really loved cats. I love cats. I think that's why I got my love for cats. What was your cat's name? She was a little stray and she was already pregnant at the time somebody had just dropped her off. It was different days then and she never really had a name. I think I fear, not for me but I fear death. I fear people dying. It's a reality. I see my dad's health not being so good and just getting older I see my friends just different things. I think my best friend was Joanne Lyons and her family we have a picture of her and I together when we were three years old both in our snow suits in the Westminster. Things that you would tell your old self. I didn't have to be afraid. I was okay just the way I was. I'm stronger than I thought I was. I was better than I thought I was. My purpose in life. I still don't know. You know, I look back in my life I look at my life moving forward I look up where I am in life and I don't know. I just kind of want to say that I don't know even why terrible things happen and I don't really I was just telling my dad the other day I don't understand why I don't understand why it has to happen especially to people who deserve better. I think that you're so strong. I really do. I think that you're so strong and ever since we moved here I've always seen you as my role model I've always wanted to be like you because especially with what you've been through you're so kind and every time I see you I just I love seeing you I love you too Thank you