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MA: What are some lessons that you have learned from your parents or the Issei generation that you can think of?

SE: That I what?

MA: That you can think of, just some lessons or values that you learned.

SE: Well, like remembering the older generation, trying to keep up the cemetery and keep it up so that they will not be completely forgotten. And I suppose mainly it's because, for our own... down the line and things. It gets more and more difficult when the younger ones, very different nationalities and change. We often talk about it with each other, about how long will it continue to keep up lot of the things. Well, lot of things aren't necessary, and yet lot of things are nice.

MA: Which sorts of traditions do you think are sort of the most important to pass on to future generations?

SE: Remembering the older generation and the values that they had on importance of family and keeping face. [Laughs] I think, like, without realizing it, I guess my, my girls once in a while laugh when they talk about it. They said, "What will my mother say?" [Laughs]

MA: Great. Well, is there anything else you want to say before we...

SE: I don't think so.

MA: ...wrap up?

SE: I can't think of anything. [Sound of thunder] Is that storm?

MA: It's a storm, so... [laughs]

SE: Sounds like it.

MA: Well, thank you so much for, for your interview.

SE: Well, you're welcome. I don't know that I did anything much, but...

MA: Oh, I feel like I learned a lot, so thank you very much.

SE: Well, I hope so. You're welcome.

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