Once it was established that the girls could be educated, their father apparently forbade them to speak their personal language. He was quoted in "Time" magazine as saying: "They don't want to be associated as dummies. You live in a society, you got to speak the language." Asked if they remembered their language, the girls confirmed that they did, but their father quickly chided them for "lying". Despite being mainstreamed and placed in separate classes, the girls remained affected by their family's emotional neglect. A follow-up as they approached the age of 30 revealed that Virginia worked on an assembly line in a supervised job training center, while Grace mopped floors at a fast-food restaurant, McDonalds.