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JC: Kiyo, your elementary years were pretty happy for you, weren't they? Can you talk a little bit about your high school experience? You went to Alameda High School?

KM: Yes, I went to Alameda High School. At lunchtime and all, there was a little group of girls that I had lunch with, we'd walk down to Park Street every day and go to Boniere Bakery and get palm leaves, that's what I liked, I remember. And I also belonged to several social clubs. But one thing that stands out now is that I did not socialize with the girls that I went to elementary school with, because they all joined sororities. And, of course, I wasn't asked to be in one, and I didn't give it that much thought, but I was disappointed. And my social life changed completely when I went to high school. My social life was centered primarily here at the temple with my Japanese friends, so I went to, I was part of the Junior YBA and we went to dances and things like that here.

JC: May I ask a question, Kiyo? So in high school, when you were not invited to join the sorority, what did you think? Why was that?

KM: I didn't... I thought it was because I was Japanese, you know, I was not white. But it's something that I just accepted.

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