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TI: Now, how about you? How were you in school? When you think of grade school back then at Thomas...

GH: I was more interested in playing than studying. [Laughs]

TI: So you wouldn't call yourself a, necessarily a good student?

GH: No.

TI: But you were probably a pretty good student.

GH: No. [Laughs]

TI: How about things like Japanese school? Did you go to Japanese school?

GH: Yeah, I went to Japanese school, because I could play baseball. [Laughs]

TI: Because there was a baseball team with the Japanese school?

GH: Yeah.

TI: And that's the reason you went, not for the Japanese language?

GH: Well, I was discouraged. I seldom studied, but there was a day I did study, and when the teacher asked, I volunteered to read. And... I read, "Tefu tefu gatonde imasu." Everybody laughed. Now, 'tefu tefu,' you have to read it as, 'cho cho.' And I said, I said I had enough of Japanese. And I did learn something, I guess, but I wasn't a very good student then.

TI: Well, at home, did you speak mostly Japanese, or was it a combination of Japanese and...

GH: A combination.

TI: Well, growing up as a, as a young child, was your first language Japanese, or was it English, do you recall?

GH: I guess English.

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