Well, my full name is Alexanderina McComb. I've never been called Alexanderina. 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. When I went to see my dad was coming home from work and my mum let me run ahead and meet my dad and behind his back, he was holding something and then he pulled out in a little plastic bag, a little goldfish in water and that was a little bit. But that is, I think, my first real memory. The house that I really grew up in, my family home, was our first house, the newest nister that we actually bought. When we immigrated from Scotland, we rented in Vancouver and then we rented a new Westminster and when I was eight years old, we bought a house and I, we lived there from when I was eight until I was sixteen and it was a small little house. I think it was the happiest time in my life. 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. It's their wonderful man 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 to my own good. I felt things too deeply. I felt hurts too deeply. Yeah. I was 22 and I met a fellow. He was in the U.S. Navy but as 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 something like that. I sent a card because I knew his mom's address but it was just returned that 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. So how did you meet? At a nightclub. Really? I gave him a nightclub. 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 a very pretty. He was pretty 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 want to have a look. What? And 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 in next year. That's beautiful. I think darling you know it was just because we were older when we got married. We were both 44. I think my biggest regret especially since James has 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 we know 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 I really love cats. I love cats. Yeah I think that's where I got my other cats. Yeah. What was your cat's name like that? She knew what she was a little stray and she was already pregnant at the time somebody had just dropped her off. It was different days. And we never she never really had a name. I think I fear not for me but I fear death. I fear people dying. You know it's a reality. I see my dad's health not being so good and you know 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 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 you always touch my heart every time I see you I just I love seeing you. I love you too. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.