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MA: So that's, so you moved back to Denver to be with your family.

LS: Uh-huh.

MA: What type of work did you do after you moved to Denver? What did you do... did you live with your folks?

LS: Uh-huh. Oh, I know what I did. I went to work at a cleaner's, and I was there most of the time 'til I got married.

MA: Was it in Denver?

LS: In Denver, yes.

MA: And owned by a Japanese American family?

LS: Japanese, uh-huh.

MA: Were most of the customers also Japanese American?

LS: No, 'cause it was, further down south is where the cleaning was. It was mostly the white people.

MA: Did you go into Denver's Japantown ever? Was there, like, a --

LS: Not very often.

MA: -- community, business community?

LS: Not very often, because my mom and dad mainly went to get the, all the Japanese food, because he liked to socialize, my mom didn't. [Laughs]

MA: Yeah, it sounds like your dad was quite a guy.

LS: Yeah, he was pretty active.

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