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LH: Well, we were talking a little bit also about how your mother was working in camp and sort of didn't really explain to you what was going on in terms of the war, but did she sort of continue to give you advice or warn you not to do things or to be, to sort of do those things that mothers do in terms of parenting?

FG: Oh, of course. It was even more strict because she was there all the time [Laughs] and she was right there. But yeah, I think my mother was kind of a typical Japanese mother and you learn ethics and morals and things kind of on a day-to-day basis on the little things. And I've never realized how very strong these things were until like now, and I wonder where I learned some of these things and it was so subtle and it was so... that it's hard to know when and where, but probably a lot of it was in camp. [Laughs]

LH: So the particular incidents don't really stand out, but you really do feel that there is this real ingrained moral code that she sort of put into you.

FG: I think so, but I thought that's what everybody did. I thought every parent did that. I hope they do.

LH: I hope they do too.

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