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TI: During this time, things just culturally, I mean, what, like, what kind of TV shows did you watch?

EW: Same thing, you know, cartoons. [Laughs] Cartoons on a Saturday morning, and that's about it. In terms of Hawaii and the mainland, there isn't much difference. I mean, Hawaii, yes, culturally, it's very different from anywhere else on the mainland, but in terms of American pop culture, we probably are a little later in terms of what's, what's the norm in America. But yeah, it's pretty much, had a normal childhood. There's, of course, there's the beach and the weather in Hawaii. I remember when I was little, my mother used to always come home from work and take me to the beach, I think when I was probably maybe four or five, every afternoon. And we'd play in the sand and play in the water, and when it started to get dark it would get cold, and I remember taking a shower and I would always be shivering after, and then we'd come home after that.

TI: Okay, good. I'm going to move on to, like school. What did you think of school? How did you like school, what type of subjects were you interested in?

EW: Let's see. I don't think there was really any one subject I was excited about. School was school, and I liked to, I liked learning and I liked to be with my classmates. I can't say it was... it was a public school and no different from any other, I think, in America.

TI: So do you think if people were to talk about you in terms of, would they describe you as a, a good student, or studious, or how do you think they would describe you?

EW: Well, I guess if you asked the other students, we, when we graduated from sixth grade, grade school, we had a yearbook with all the pictures in it, and then we had who was the most popular and who was the most, who was the smartest and things like that, and then they would put a picture there. And I guess for one of the most smartest, there was two girls and two guys, and I was one of them. I don't ever consider myself to be super intelligent, I just think that I have always, from grade school to high school to college, I always just applied myself, and kind of making up for what I lacked in intelligence. [Laughs] And then I've been pretty successful because of that.

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