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TY: [Jpn.] By the way, since age six, you lived with your grandfather who loved you very much.

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] You told me that during the ten years you lived with him, you did not have to do any housework.

MK: [Jpn.] Right.

TY: [Jpn.] So your grandfather did everything for you, didn't he?

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah, my grandfather cooked rice, did cooking...

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] And he did all the shopping. He bought fish and other things downtown, and then put it there.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Eng.] Yeah. That's more easier, isn't it? Uh-huh.

TY: [Jpn.] Then, your grandfather did all the cleaning, too?

MK: [Jpn.] Therefore --

TY: [Jpn.] Yes?

MK: [Eng.] -- until I'm, graduate women's school, then that's why I don't know how to make it, rice. Only two people, you know. I don't a need help, though. Only grandpa and grandchild. So...

TY: [Jpn.] So your grandfather was retired and was a retiree?

MK: [Eng.] Nothing, no retire.

TY: [Eng.] No retirement?

MK: [Eng.] They're gonna raise me, that's big job is it? Yeah, yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] Then you had no experience with housework, and came to the U.S. with your father.

MK: [Jpn.] Yes.

TY: [Jpn.] I understand you were told on the first day to cook rice.

MK: [Jpn.] Yes.

TY: [Jpn.] I mean for the greenhouse. For the greenhouse in South Park.

MK: [Eng.] Yeah, working there. Then I gonna marry over there. Then I go to, I gonna move to Sunnydale. You don't know Sunnydale. Near Burien. Burien --

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Eng.] -- Burien, you know now, huh. Yeah, small place. Then I gonna make, start greenhouse again. My father too. That time father, me and my husband, three. Then I working. Then start again, another greenhouse.

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