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From Hugh Hewitt's interview with Clarence Thomas:

CT: Or 30 degrees, or 32 degrees seems as though you may as well be on the North Pole. And so there are times on that truck it was very, very cold. And I was huddled up quite a few times, and mostly, it was in the afternoons I was with [my grandmother]. He took off, he started delivering fuel oil during the daylight hours, but when I first went to live with him, he also, my brother and I went to live with him, he also delivered ice in the wee hours of the morning.

HH: Wow.

[snip]

CT: Well, actually, you know, we were very fortunate. The family actually inherited that farm. It was handed down from his grandmother and great-grandfather, who were freed slaves. And they bought that property. And as is the tradition among so many blacks who were descendants of slaves in the South, once they got property, it was handed down as heirs property from generation to generation undivided. And it was on that property that we farmed. And yes, he was quite a farmer, because he grew up as a part of the tradition where the people out in Liberty County where we were, were subsistence farmers. And what he did, he used to tell us all the time, well, we’re going to farm, and we’re going to live in the ways of slavery time. What he meant by that is that we would live in accordance with the traditions handed down by his grandmother, whom he stayed with when he was, after his mother died when he was nine years old. And she had been a freed slave. So think about it. He was raised in part by his grandmother who was a freed slave, and then he raises my brother and me according to those traditions.

HH: Wow.

[snip]

HH: And did he maintain the disciplines of the Church with weekly Mass and Holy Days of Obligation and the Rosary?

CT: Oh, yes. My goodness, yes. He used to make it, he’d be the first one to 6:00 Mass on all Holy Days of Obligation, and all First Fridays.

HH: Wow.

[snip]

HH: You know, it seems like a blink, Justice Thomas. My first week of broadcast, my first year of broadcast, was when you were nominated…

CT: Wow.