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          Paper for an injury on the job.  He said that he saved $17,000              
          from the sale of a house in Kansas City in 1981, and $23,000 from           
          the sale of a house in Yellville in 1985.  He stated that he                
          saved $6,000 from selling personal possessions when he sold the             
          house in Yellville in 1985.  He stated that his grandmother gave            
          him $20,000 in 1986 to replace personal items he had kept in her            
          house and that were lost when the house burned down.  He said               
          that he saved about $22,000 from 1987 to 1997 from his buying and           
          selling activity.                                                           
               Petitioners’ son, Gary, testified that he once “took a bunch           
          of money” from petitioner when he was about 6 or 7 years old and            
          got in a lot of trouble.                                                    
               Petitioner’s brother, Danney, testified that petitioner told           
          him he had saved money for many years.  Danney said:  “Every time           
          I’d turn around he [petitioner] had a roll of bills.”  “I’ve seen           
          him with * * * [what] appeared to be large sums of money.”                  
          Danney also testified that petitioner sold his personal items               
          from the Yellville house at auction.                                        
               Petitioner’s uncle, Ireland, testified that he did not know            
          how much money, if any, his mother (petitioner’s grandmother)               
          gave petitioner for items he lost when her house burned down.               
          Ireland said that petitioner’s grandparents lived through the               
          Depression and taught petitioner and him how to save money.  He             
          testified that he saw petitioner with “a lot of U.S. savings                






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