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Well, I just really don't know how to respond to you at all, to tell you the truth.

I mean, I didn't know anything about this whole thing until you started sending me stuff about it and reading some of the stories about it, but I don't even remember hearing about the story even back then.

The hotel would transport us up and back between the railroad yard and Mandan

and the Comfort Inn

in their van.

you know, we were a pretty captive audience right around the general area, around the hotel there, where we would get a meal over at Perkins or that, you know, I mean, we were pretty much within walking distance of the hotel.

And back then, you know, we didn't, we usually didn't spend a lot of time there.