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MA: What, what religion did your family practice?

LS: Buddhist. But I don't remember too much of that, because when we moved to Santa Monica, then we started Japanese school, and most of my friends were recruited by this Christian couple, and we went to the Christian church.

MA: How were you recruited by them? Did they just...

LS: They just came and talked to my parents, and my mom says, "Yeah, let them go."

MA: Were they white people or Japanese?

LS: White.

MA: And so then you started going to this Christian church?

LS: Yes, uh-huh. A lot of my friends went there, too.

MA: And your parents were okay with that?

LS: They were Buddhists, so, but they didn't go because they wanted us to have some religious background. Because I don't think there was much in the line of Buddhist church there, except to go to Sawtelle, if I remember right, and they didn't go there. My mom was more introverted, for one thing, although my dad wasn't.

MA: So your dad was more outgoing.

LS: Yes, quite a bit more.

MA: So they were okay with you going to Christian church?

LS: Uh-huh, uh-huh.

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