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AI: Well, and then tell me about David, because then David grew up and he went off to, he went to school, and he went to college.

MF: Well, David did very well in Garfield. He was top ten. And he went to four years of University here. And then he took a, he worked for a firm for about a year and then he started his own business and he took a one -- I don't know, five years after he had his business he took a sabbatical for one year and he went to New York and went to school there, Cornell, I think. And then, that's about all. He's been on his own now. He always had a partner but he said he never got along with them so he's all independent now and I think he's ready to retire.

AI: Well, I --

MF: He's sixty-three.

AI: And his career has been very well-known as an architect.

MF: Oh, I think so, I think so. He does a lot of charity work, too. Every, every once a month or something he goes down to the International District to talk with them about architect with the Chinese people and I think maybe few Japanese, I don't know. But he always tells me he has an awfully good time and they feed him. [Laughs]

AI: Well, speaking of charity work, you have been active with charity work for a long time, also.

MF: Oh my gosh. I started volunteering for Children's Hospital in 196-, now we retired in '67, I started work in '68 and I quit about two years ago. And then I have worked six and a half years at Keiro as a volunteer, and then I have worked about four years at the Trinity Church as a volunteer sorting clothes where they sell them.

AI: And then, don't you also volunteer for the Red Cross?

MF: I knit for the Red Cross. Where is my knitting? I'll show you.

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MF: I make leggings. I been doing this for, I think I made over a thousand. They furnish the yarn and then when I finish the product they pick it up and bring me the yarn. She said I'm the oldest woman that's doing volunteer work for the Red Cross here in Seattle.

AI: Is that right?

MF: [Laughs] I do this when I'm watching television. Yeah, I love to knit. I knit all my sweaters and I knit all my nephews and nieces sweaters all the time. I like hand work. I have a tablecloth that's handmade. I'll show it to you because lotta people think that I'm not telling the truth. [Laughs]

AI: Oh, let me see. You're still connected. Maybe we'll -- why don't you sit down for a moment and we can, you can show me that afterwards.

MF: Yeah.

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