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pasta sauce, and sausages. Because of the large quantities,
he had to eat the same food for a whole week. To get the
necessary vitamins, he ate one orange a day. The rest of the
day he ate hot dogs with bread from a loaf – not buns since
they were too expensive.^350 “I tried various experiments to
live on less than one dollar a day without getting scurvy,”
Elon said. “You can cook spaghetti sauce with, like, a third
of a green pepper, or buy a thing of sausages and a loaf of
bread to make hot dogs for 25 or 30 cents apiece.”^307
Someone who wasn’t happy when Elon moved to
Canada was his sister Tosca. She missed her genius brother
and wanted to join him in Canada. Her mother Maye
explained to her that Elon was eighteen years old and Tosca
was fifteen years old, and that made it obvious she couldn’t
join her brother. But Tosca refused to accept the answer.
While Maye was away on a trip, Tosca came up with the
brilliant idea to sell the family’s house. If they didn’t have
a house to live in, they all would have to move to Canada.
When Maye returned from the trip, Tosca had put the house
on the market and sold it. “I think we must leave now,”
Tosca said. Maye wasn’t convinced.^49
Years later, Maye changed her mind, so Maye, Tosca,
and Kimbal moved to Canada. Almost everyone else in
the family would move away from South Africa. Elon’s
grandmother Wyn remained in South Africa, working with
wood carving, pottery, and painting. In 1999, she also
moved back to Canada together with her daughter Edith
Lynne.^85 Like his father and grandmother, Scott became a
chiropractor and would study and work both in Canada