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Like many of you men, women my age, we used to
have around the country a lot of Chinese
laundries. When the Chinese first started in,
they come from the west coast, moving eastward,
coming over from the eastern country, moving this
way. And as they did, they were people who were
not acquainted with our language and our ways,
but they were fine laundryman. And they couldn't
write the ticket so you could get your right
laundry back. But the Chinaman, he got himself a
bunch of little cards with nothing on it at all.
So when you come for your laundry, he would take
this card and tear it in a certain way and hand
you one piece, and he kept the other piece. And
now, it's a little better than what we have now,
because when you come back to claim what was your
own, those two pieces must dovetail. You
couldn't impersonate it if you had to. There's no
way of doing it. You could make copies of
letters, but you can't impersonate that tear.
It's got to fit exactly with the other piece.
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