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JA: Our narrator is Mitsuko Takeshita Hashiguchi and the interviewer is James Arima. Now, Mitzie, can you relate to us some of your earliest memories of your childhood?

MH: Yes. I grew up in Bellevue. I was born and raised in Bellevue. I went to Bellevue Elementary School and I went to Bellevue High School, all in Bellevue, and that building is not there anymore. It was torn down and now it's the Bellevue parks, is being built there and used for park. And then my life was a very busy one. Getting up early in the morning and helping Mom with all the duties, because she had a little too much to do, so I had to help with the breakfast, lunch, and dinner and then also helped with the... [Laughs] Blank, huh?

JA: With all the different farm chores, I'm sure.

MH: Oh yeah. Oh, the farm chores. I had a lot to do of that, too, of course. And I had to get up early in the morning to help her, Dad on the farm because we had all this tomatoes out there and lettuce out there, strawberries, peas, and all those things has to be harvested, weeded, and everything else in that line is what we all had to do.

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