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[Translated from Japanese]

TY: Those students who lived in the dorm, they were from other cities, and they lived in the dormitory at school, didn't they?

AT: It would have been too far if they commuted. That's why they were in the dorm. There were three at school who came from Yamaguchi Prefecture.

TY: Is that so? Those people, their families must have been pretty well off. They had them stay at the dormitory.

AT: Uh-huh, well, their parents came over in the beginning of the month, paid money to church, no, to school, for food and others, left allowance, and went home. But, we commuted from home, so I said, "Mom, I need money, I need money for tuition." Then, she told me to take the bankbook and our signature stamp, and to go to the bank and withdraw so and so much, and my obi, we fastened 3 feet, and they would roll the money in it. She told me that I shouldn't get distracted because I was old enough and that I should go straight to the bank, so I replied yes. When I arrived at the bank, they could tell by looking at my face. They told me to come inside, told me from the window to come inside, and they let me come to a room in the back. Then, they opened here, and the money was rolled inside of obi, and they took out the money this way. They put back the change into the obi again, and they inserted money. When we went to withdraw money, money was when mother came home, mother could not go by herself, after all. When I went, she told me to take it, then I took it to the bank, then I told them how much I needed for this and for that, right? Then I went into the back, they told me to come inside, and they let me enter from the door, and I was wearing obi like this, right? Then, from this part of obi, here, I was wearing kimono overlapping here, right? This way, in the part of kimono, in the inside, they put an envelope inside, and did like this, and they said to me, "Don't play on the way home. Be sure to go straight back to your mother, and give her the money." "Yes," I said. In this way, I went places on errands.

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