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They struggled to find work even though they were both educated, but after buying a typewriter and learning to type they both found jobs. She started working for Queens Public Library in 1985.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMaher discusses her early life in Queens, bringing up her children, and how she dealt with child care and commuting as a working mother. She mentions all the neighborhoods she worked and lived in and how they have changed over time – there are now many more Indians and Pakistanis where she lives. She also talks about the difficulties of being a new American, and also how helpful her fellow staff members at Queens Public Library have been to her over the years. 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We are recording on 02-26, February 26, (2021) for the Queens Memory Project Ambassadors Program.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1.0,16.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=16.0,17.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Okay. So do you agree to the terms and conditions outlined in the Queens Memory informed consent and copyright permission form that I shared with you.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=17.0,26.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Mhm.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=26.0,26.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Please say yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=26.0,29.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=29.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Okay. Now, could you say your full name and spell it?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=30.0,34.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Z A R I N A. And last name is Maher, M A H E R.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=34.0,45.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Okay, great. Zarina and I know each other from work, so , that's a good thing. So, once the official stuff is out of the way we'll we'll begin. Um, so what I'd like to ask you about is your experience and your life in Pakistan before you came to America?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=45.0,68.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: I'm actually, I belonged to a middle-class peer, you know, family in Pakistan, and we have a family. When I came from Pakistan to America, so because my parents passed away and I was alone - and my brother was already in America, you know, so he, sponsered me.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=68.0,95.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: So he sponsored you?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=95.0,96.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Yeah, he sponsored me and I came in 1980,\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=96.0,101.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: 1980?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=101.0,102.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Yeah. Eight zero, 1980.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=102.0,104.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: What, what age were you when you came over?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=104.0,110.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Oh, maybe 28.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=110.0,112.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: so, um, your family, did you, were you married? Did you bring your children?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=112.0,118.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: I was not married that time. I was single and because I was left alone back home, you know, after my parents passed away, you know, then my brother, he sponsored me and came in here and after, uh, like a two year, 1982, I went back and I married.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=118.0,138.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Oh, you went back to Pakistan and married.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=138.0,141.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: I married over there - back home.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=141.0,143.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Oh, interesting. Interesting.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=143.0,146.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Okay. And then you came back. When did you come back again to America.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=146.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Uh, I came back again after four months, 1982. I came back after marriage. I came back, you know, and I sponsor my husband. I sponsor him because he was studying over there in, uh, in masters. So he finished the masters and he came in in America, 1983.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=150.0,175.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Oh, interesting. Okay. So, um, why did you pick America, USA over, um, any other place, any particular reason?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=175.0,186.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Um, the only one thing, you know, my brother said, it's better to come over here. You will get better future. If you want to go back to study, you could do the study. So I said, okay,\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=186.0,199.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Okay. So, and then, um,\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=199.0,203.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: I was alone over there after the parents, you know? So he was worried, he was very worried about me. You know, how you could live alone over there.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=203.0,212.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Right. What kind of education did you have?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=212.0,215.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: I have a college degree, you know.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=215.0,217.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: From Pakistan.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=217.0,219.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: I'm a graduate from Pakistan.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=219.0,221.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Oh very good. What University or college, did you go to ?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=221.0,226.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Lahore College in Pakistan\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=226.0,227.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Oh, interesting. Interesting. Were you working over there or are you just...\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=227.0,233.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: I never worked there. Never, ever, you know, because, you know, in our tradition over there, the mostly womans at that time they were not allowed to work, you know, so my brother don't want to let me work, you know, so I was at home with my parents.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=233.0,249.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Okay. All right. Um, and then your parents died and, uh, okay. Um, why did you settle in Queens? Why did you settle in Queens? Was Queens your original place of settlement when you, came over.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=249.0,267.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: When we came in in New York and, um, you know, that Queens is better area. I mean, Queens is, I think is a better area. We got an apartment here actually. I mean, two years, I lived in New Jersey with my brother, you know? So when the husband came 1983 in New York, so we decided to live in New York because, you know, in New York you have a opportunity to do work, you know, and get the job here. It was easier for us because New Jersey, he, my brother living in New Jersey, you know, so I found it over there - it's hard to, you know, commute, you know, I mean, to me from commuting was not easy over there. So when he came to America, my husband, so we decided to live in New York.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=267.0,318.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Okay. So he, he had a Master's degree from Pakistan.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=318.0,321.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Yes. My husband has a Master's degree.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=321.0,324.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Wow. So, um, okay. So, um, when you finally got here, when you got to Queens, was it, was it, um, was it difficult or how was, how was it? Was it difficult to start over again? I guess is my question.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=324.0,344.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: It was difficult, you know, but we struggled a lot, both of us and, uh, we get lucky. He's got the job in Manhattan. We're not a, you know, we, we, we were going to look for the job, different, different places and banks and other places even, he has the master degree, but he never has the typewriting, you know, type type. He never had the experience in typing, you know, so wherever we went, you know, the people ask us, do you have experience? Do you have a typing? 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So you got a job in the library when?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=469.0,474.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Uh, 1985.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=474.0,476.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: That was pretty early.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=476.0,478.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Yeah. I got 1985, you know?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=478.0,481.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: So you, you worked for Queens library for how long?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=481.0,486.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Uh, you know, I, they asking the job, you know, I mean, I went for the test and I took the test in a Queens Library and then they call me for the job, you know?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=486.0,497.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Excellent. 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You know?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=512.0,565.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: How did you, how did you care for the child?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=565.0,567.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: I gave to him to babysitter in Flushing. 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How did you get around and take public transportation or,\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=583.0,586.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Yeah, I used to take a Q41- bus to Flushing, and then I transfer to another bus to Mitchell-Linden.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=586.0,595.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Okay. 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So where was your apartment? Was the apartment in Queens?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=690.0,694.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Yeah, it was 112th street. Um, Corona.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=694.0,697.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Okay. And then you worked for Queens Library and your husband was working and then you eventually bought a house?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=697.0,705.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: No. No. Where we lived there in the apartment 10 years because my both kids are so young. 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You know, after my baby, I asked for (a) transfer, you know? So they're transfer me to Corona Branch, you know, which is very close to my home. 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Luckily, I wastelling you, I was in working all, all those years. I never got discriminated. You know, the staff were so helpful with me. I still remember Blanca, she's still working - Blanca Silver, in Corona you know? And she said, Zarina, all the vacation, every time she tried to give me, she said, you, your kids they need you because they live with the babysitter. 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We bought the car, you know, and when I was working in Mitchell-Linden, you know, like it's too over the dropping the kids to the babysitter, you know, that time. But I used to really, cause my husband dropped him to babysitter. And when I get off from the branch, you know, remember Ratha Burden, she used to be librarian? She was working with me. She used to give me the ride to drop a babysitter's home, you know, and I pick up my baby and I used to take the bus to home like this.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=910.0,944.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Um, just, uh, what was it question I wanted to ask? Um, so, um, at any time did you start to feel like, uh, Queens was a home away from home?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=944.0,957.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Um, in the beginning, you know, like when you came in this country, everything is completely different for us, you know, like a culture, educational, and like religion. I mean society, language, you know. In the beginning I was a graduate, thank God, from the back home because English was over there the language. I remember I, I would never have the problem, even I remember when I was working at Mitchell-Linden, sometime I got so much lucky, you know... as like a confused my senior clerk, Sally, she used to work with me there \"Zarina, I'm here for help you. You doing wonderful. Don't worry about that. Your job is - you are doing wonderful job\", you know? So, she always encouraged me. That's I say - Luckily this way, wherever, whichever branch I work, you know, the staff always very helpful with me. Very helpful with me.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=957.0,1013.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: So I guess, um, you had a very welcoming experience with the Queens and your job. Um, if you were to stay in Pakistan, would you be able to work or would you have not been...\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1013.0,1027.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: That I don't know. You know, maybe they will try to marry me over there, you know, because our culture, first thing is for the women and get married, you know, in that time the girls were dependent on the parents and brothers, you know, the family. So first all the parents and family, they try to, you know, push for them, Marry, you know? So maybe they, I got married. I don't know, you know. That time I was working, nobody knows the future, you know. Now being over there, now, I mean, it's completely different. Girls are coming out from the home and they are working now. There's different now, but when I was there, you know, mostly girls get their education, but they don't let them go for work, you know? I mean, not all of them, but most of them, you know?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1027.0,1079.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Right. So, um, yeah, so it wasn't much different. So then your children, um, the education, your children grew up and they went to public school?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1079.0,1095.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: You know that's reason I pick up Queens because my job was in Queens and I said, my, uh, I don't want to go to Long Island because I'm working in Queens. And I think, I don't know how long I will work in Queens. So it's easier for them to take the bus and they could go to the schools, you know? So they went to, I mean, my older son went to St. John's University he graduate from there. And my younger son, he went to, uh, Maryland University. He finished the finance from there, graduated from there, both of them, you know? So that's the reason I lived in Queens. It's easier for them to go to the schools and colleges. I prefer, you know, Queens this way - I don't want my kids stay. And plus, you know, I made my home very fast, even I'm full-time worker, you know, but I keep my eyes more on my boys, you know?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1095.0,1147.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Oh, like a good mother\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1147.0,1150.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: That's it says finish my job and straight, I will always try to come home.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1150.0,1158.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: So, um, when you moved to Queens, how was the neighborhood?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1158.0,1169.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: In this area Bellerose?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1169.0,1169.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nNew Speaker: Yeah.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1169.0,1169.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: At that time we were like a more, more, you know, like a I will say white people, you know, American people. Three families, we are from, you know, back home, like a Pakistani, you know, Indian and Pakistani, but we never have any type of discriminate in my neighborhood. You know, they are such a nice, you know, slowly, slowly, they are moving out, now selling the house and now more Indian peoples are coming. But when I came in '97, very few people were here, you know, in, from India, Pakistan.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1169.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Oh, um, yeah. I noticed walking down the streets in Bellerose. When I, when I worked at the Bellerose Library that the stores are all focused on Indian.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1200.0,1211.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Only one store when I moved here - New Patel Brothers, all were American stores at that time, you know, bagel shop and, uh, Hallmark, so many other, you know, store. But I, I came in '97, this neighborhood, and I know that one time, I mean, not an Indian store. Slowly, slowly, you know, more people are coming in this side now, that's the reason they are making, I mean, opening more stores now.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1211.0,1237.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: So yeah. So it's slowly by slowly, the white people are moving, the Americans let's put it that way. The Americans.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1237.0,1245.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: You know, the kids they are no longer young, they are left in a home now, father and mother living alone, you know, so they don't want, you know, mostly families, you know, like my boys now, you know, they are not at home now. They moved out, you know, now me and my husband alone living.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1245.0,1266.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Um, that's interesting. Um, um, so you, you do notice changes in the neighborhood.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1266.0,1274.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Oh Yeah.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1274.0,1275.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: There's a lot of changes now.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1275.0,1278.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Um, so I mean, has there been any changes in the property values? No. No. The property values are pretty much the same.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1278.0,1291.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: No. And it's getting more up, you know, because there's now more Indian peoples are coming. They like this area because it's more like a neat and clean a safe area. I heard it, whatever price, you know, they are asking the house and they buy right away. I mean, the prices are, I mean, not down, it's still going up and the same, you know, it's not down.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1291.0,1317.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Right. So where do you think you'll end up in the future? I mean, do you think you're going to stay in Queens or do you think you'll move to Florida or what?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1317.0,1325.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Uh, so many times I tried to make a, you know, to move out because I was alone. My boys are not at home. One was, went to Dallas. The other one is in Boston. So I spoke with them. And so my time I'm alone at home, what we can do - then they say, mom, don't go far away. It's hard for us to come to visit you. So stay in New York, the Boston boy, he said, he's a doctor now. So he's told me, mom, we have only three hours driving, you know, so we could come to visit now, you know, for COVID-19 he could not come, you know, the other one, the Dallas one, he also came in New York, but now COVID-19, you know, he got so upset, board in New York. He went back to California and a warm place, you know? And, uh, what is that Dallas? You know, but he is, uh, he also liked in New York. So that's the reason I think so far we will staying in New York, you know?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1325.0,1388.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: So your husband, um, did he get a job commensurate with his, with his Master's degree when he first came here?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1388.0,1394.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: He get it, but then he started, you know, to work like a real estate office. He was working real estate office for a long time. And, um, then, you know, he's, uh, I mean, now he, uh, do like a stock exchange.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1394.0,1412.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: I have very bad, like this way, like in 1989, he got sick, you know, my husband. He had an aneurysm in his office, he was in '89, you know, he was working in the office, he got it over there. He's complaining about the headache, you know, and one day he fall down in the office, you know, and I was working at Corona branch - at that time Corona branch closed, at that time four o'clock, you know, I came home and 4:30, I call him, cause my boys were ready to go in the park with the bike, you know? So I said, let me tell your dad, you know, I'm taking you in the park, you know, when I call and they say, he's not feeling good. You know, I said, what happened? So I made it to, his office was on the Hillside Avenue, just at Queens Boulevard, you know? So I came in here and I found him unconscious, you know, on the floor, it was poor. He, you know, like, he's lucky, you know, I would say maybe his mother, she prayed a lot for him, you know, because he was only one son, you know, his own single son, you know? So I took him to NYU Manhattan. You know why? Because I'm telling you my branch Manager, uh, uh, Diane Vitaly, one day, I said, Diane, I don't know my husband complaining about the headache, you know? And he's so young. He was only 30, she's 36 years old, you know? So I said, I don't know why he's complaining headache. You know, she says, Rina, take the number and take him to the NYU and don't come first day without making appointment.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1412.0,1512.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: So she actually, you know, guide me, the branch manager. Before I taking over there on Saturday, he fall down, you know, and he got aneurysm because she said, he's young, man - never complained about the headache. You say he had the big headache and he's always complaining, you know, he fall down and he got aneurysm, you know? So I made him over there at NYU, in the car - not ambulance in the car. I drove him over there - and nurses got so surprised, thet said, how you managed you get here without the oxygen. He needs Oxygen. And then the, right away doctors there, you know, got him. And then doctor, he said, don't worry, he's in the safe hands, you are lucky, he survived now. For how many hours he was, you know, on the unconscious.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1512.0,1563.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Okay. Um, just, I don't, that was well, you're lucky that he survived and everything went well. But, um, um, so he, he has a job commensurate with his education\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1563.0,1576.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Slowly, slowly recover. You know, he takes a lot of time, you know, actually if he got right away, you know, treatment - maybe he will better, you know, but thanks God, you know, slowly slow. It took time, you know, but he survived, you know, and he getting better, but he's still working. He doing like a stock exchange and working, he makes money, you know.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1576.0,1599.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: What was his master's degree in?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1599.0,1602.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Economics.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1602.0,1603.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Economics, oh, okay. All right. So then now, um, when you came over, I mean, this is just kind of a question I'm interested in. Um, religion wise was, is you're Muslim?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1603.0,1615.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Yeah, I'm Muslim.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1615.0,1618.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Okay. So when you left there, did you have any, did you experience any, uh, was, was there enough? Um, I don't know, I guess it's a two-fold question. Was there, was there a place you could worship here?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1618.0,1633.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: We have the mosque, you know, around here we go over there and I'm saying in my job also never, ever anybody discriminate, you know, even they know I'm a Muslim, you know? They never questioned me, and they always, even, I worked with Mr. Berger when it was 911 that day I worked with him and he never ever say any word, and even he was so helpful with me. Because, same week my father-in-law passed away and my husband wanted to go back, you know? And all the planes, were not, you know, working - stopped, you know. And I came to work and, um, Mr. Berger, he said, Zarina, don't worry, I'm here, If you want to go home, you go home and he should not go right now, you know, he said, because right, right now, you'd never know what happened, you know, because what the reaction America, they will do, you know? So you should not go, you know, so that's, he was helping. He said, even you have four days to stay home, you know, I said, but better to work, you know, because otherwise you, you save, you're fighting at home, you know, because I tried to stop him. Don't go, don't go. Because otherwise, if he go over there and something happened, how come I will stay with my boys, you know, alone here. So that's, let's see. He was so helpful to me, Mr Burger, you know? So he said, okay, to stay. And whenever you want to go home, you'll go, you know, it was Saturday on that day.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1633.0,1721.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: But, we have the mosque, we go over there and whenever, you know, our religion, prayer arrange, you know, we also have festivals. We do it, but never, ever, you know, people, they say, even I'm saying my, uh, on the street - there is one couple, they're old couple now, and their kids are, you know, also gone, you know? So whenever I have a festival, I make the food, I try to give them, then they are so happy, and like my food, you know. Saying I made the food and I try to give them sometime, you know, like it's chicken, fried rice and chicken and sweet, you know, they like, they are very old now, but they like me.That is only one white, couple left on my street now.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1721.0,1772.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: So you never, you never, you know, you, it seems like a testament to Queens Library, really your, your life here, which is a great thing to hear. Um, but it seemed like you had a pretty, you know, um, it's a pretty positive experience. I mean, other than, you know, some difficulties, you had a very positive experience.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1772.0,1792.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: That's to say I had the hardship. But, um, I mean, my staff let's say wherever I've worked Central Library, I mean, um, Mitchell-Linden, Corona branch, finally, Glen Oaks and Bellerose, you know, all places, you know, the staff always about, you know, I that's my good luck. You know what I'm saying? They always are very, you know, helpful with me. And now finally, Mrs. Kim, you know, she also, I feel like she is my sister.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1792.0,1822.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Yeah, no she's wonderful.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1822.0,1825.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: That's what I'm saying. I see you are still keeping, you know, you're right.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1825.0,1831.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Yes. Yes. It\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1831.0,1832.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Seems like you are saying, you know?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1832.0,1835.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Yeah. Well, I mean, yeah, I want to get off the subject. Um, no, but anyway, so, um, so, um, um, so how many years were you at Queens library?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1835.0,1848.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: I worked almost 30 years,\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1848.0,1851.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Almost 30 years at Queens Library. Wow. Pretty good. Pretty good.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1851.0,1855.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Because you know, my husband stopped working, you know, then I have to work, plus I have, you know, I need the income to survive, you know, but thanks God. I must say my boys are so good in the study, you know? And they finished their job of study very nicely. My younger son, he also had an MBA degree from Chicago Booth University. He got the job right away after graduation. And then after five years of work, he went to Chicago Booth university. He got the business degree from there, MBA.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1855.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Wow. So, um, um, do you ever feel, um, sad that you left Pakistan or are you content?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1890.0,1899.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: No. You know, I don't have any family member over there. I don't feel, you know, I just, sometimes I go because my husband's family is over there, you know? So sometime not every years we are going after a couple of years, you know, we will try to go to visit them. But otherwise I don't have my, because my family is spread. You know, some are in California, some are in Florida, some in New Jersey, you know? So, uh, I, I don't go to, you know frequently to Pakistan, like a two, three after two, three years, you know, we try to make a trip over there because my husband has the family. So we go visit them.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1899.0,1937.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Um, what's your favorite memory of your country in Pakistan? Do you have any?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1937.0,1943.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Memories, you know, we have in Pakistan, when we were young, you know what we used to do over there with the parents? What we can do, you know, it's a nice time, you know, because our culture is not like, you know, you have to go like wherever you want to go, they keeping us, you know, like under control...\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1943.0,1965.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: They were, or they weren't?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1965.0,1967.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: No, they were working, you know, my husband, no, my father was working. My mother did not work. She never worked. I mean, it's not like with the time now it's changing over there. More girls, more women are getting education. They are coming out for work. Now they have it different, you know, society over there now.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1967.0,1989.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: So what's your, your favorite experience over here then? Any, any favorite, any, any, any one memory that sticks out?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1989.0,1997.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Not really?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=1997.0,2002.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: It's all the same.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=2002.0,2002.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nNew Speaker: Nothing. Okay. Um, I'm trying to think. Um, so, um, let's see. I think, I think we covered a lot. Anything else you want to say? I mean, uh, anything else you want to say about you?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=2002.0,2021.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: No. I mean, thanks God. I got the library job and I worked very nicely and they are so good people. I've worked with the good people and maybe I've worked so hard. My, I would say my luckily my both boys, you know, comes out very good, you know? And, uh, they are working now. Maybe I was, you know, bring the books at home, keep them study and like that way. So I will say, uh, now I finished the job like 30 years and I got full benefit. Even I'm retired, I got pension plus my, you know, uh, other benefit. We have it, you know that I'm saying, I'm so lucky this way, you know? I mean, I've worked so hard. I don't leave my job. I don't want the welfare. My kids are so proud. You know, for this, our mother, she did not get the welfare. She works, you know, and I will raise them up with my, you know, money, whatever little money we use to get it. I never got the welfare because they said one time I tried to apply and they said the computer stuff, because you've making more money. I started how much I'm making money. I'm letting you know how much we used to make it. When I started that time of $16,000, you know?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=2021.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Well, yeah, I know that.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=2100.0,2103.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: To me, it's computer start (?) because you have making more money, but a lot of money, I said, how much are they making money? Lot of money. But then I say, I don't say I'm, I'm not regret for that. I'm so proud of that. I like to work, you know? And even I could work more, you know, but my boy younger one, he said, mom, the older one started residency. Now you should stop it. You have done enough. You know? So he stopped me to work. You know, he said, you have done so much, you know, so many.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=2103.0,2136.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Grateful son, you have.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=2136.0,2139.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Yeah. Yeah.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=2139.0,2140.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: He said that you'd have done, you know, a lot now as the older son, he finished and he's started residency, you know, so that in residency they got money, you know? So now he has to do his expenditure by himself and you should stop working. Now you should not go for the job now. So that's the reason I got early retirement,\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=2140.0,2163.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Early retirement. You worked 30 years. That's not early retirement.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=2163.0,2166.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: That does at 63, you know, I do not make it like 65, you know, but I'm saying I'm so happy. At least I work. And I got my benefits, you know, pension plus, you know, social security plus our medical benefit is so not right now. We need the benefit, medical benefit. I'm saying.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=2166.0,2189.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: I feel lucky too Zarina, but in different ways, but I feel very lucky to work for Queens Library as well. Some of the reasons that the same, but I do feel lucky.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=2189.0,2197.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: You, it is the less money, but in the end up, you know, it's a good job, also very good. You know, it's a safe job. It's not like a, you know, people sometimes go and they discriminate. I never had a bad experience. Never, never had it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=2197.0,2212.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Okay. Well, thank you again for taking this time out to represent the community and the Pakistani people of, uh, Glen Oaks and Bellerose. So, uh, I'm going to thanks again and I'm going to end the recording.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=2212.0,2231.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nZarina Maher: Thank you so much.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887#t=2231.0,2232.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/43822/file/116887/transcript/29113/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnne Scotti: Hold on, hold on. Okay. 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