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[Translated from Japanese]

TY: Mrs. Terao, when you were small, you said that your mother and grandpa and everybody let you do whatever you wanted to do. But, when you actually had your own children, it was in the American society where you didn't grow up, right? But, did you, after all, have your children do freely? Or, were you more careful because they were in the American society...

AT: No. Of course I was careful. As much as I could, um, how should I say, there were some not well-known meetings, right? I told my children not to go to that kind of places. That, those well-known meetings were fine because most of them were related to the temples. But, there were some irresponsible unwell-known meetings, but there were some curious people, they are not doing now, though. They were walking around quite a bit for solicitation, so I just said, "Thank you for inviting us. Well, if we had a chance we might join you," and I talked with friends, and we decided not to go, and said, "Oh, let's not send our kids to such meetings."

TY: Children, as they grew older, there were occasions when they would ask you if they could spend a night at their friends' house.

AT: Yeah, yeah.

TY: Were you okay with those things?

AT: Yeah, I was fine. But, they rarely went to spend nights at others.

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