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JY: Myself, I was in construction. I worked almost seven days a week. Saturday's half day, but I work all day Saturday, only Sunday day off I get, and do this and that. That's it, right. I go back to work. So that was my life. So later someone asks me, says, "How was your love life in camp?" I says, "Well, I was working every day." I says, "No chance." So really, then you get shy. Geez, should you or shouldn't you talk to the girls? Right? Because you don't know where they come from; you don't know their background. Because Issei, we have to know the background before you should get too serious with a girl. And they still carry that idea, "You have to know what they are first," and, "Don't get serious." They'll always tell you that. So yeah, we joke around with the girls at work, this and that, that was it. Really didn't go around with no girls.

Social life, besides, I was at the age -- I didn't fit into the junior YBA. I didn't fit into the older group, so I was kinda' in between. My younger brothers and them had a high school group, right, then my older brother was in the YBA, and I just got out of high school so I was not in the YBA yet. And I didn't... so, with the YBA, then, he kinda' tied into the YBA in camp because he was mid-twenties, so just right, right, for YBA.

AI: YBA is Young Buddhist Association.

JY: Yes, Senior YBA, Young Buddhist group. So he fit right into the group because he already, he knows the mechanics of YBA. I didn't know first thing about it, 'cause I never went to YBA meeting, so that was the end of that. So I didn't really get involved in any organization such. So work was busy enough, so I just didn't pay too much attention to it.

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