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TI: Okay, so we, we just talked about the six children. So I want to just get a sense of Hood River, before the war and you growing up and what Hood River was like, so talk about sort of the family life. What, like a typical day for you when you woke up, what was that like?

JM: Well, on the weekends and on holidays and in the wintertime, what we'd do is, when it snows, nobody raises fruit or we can't even work in the field, so they all gather and play Hanafuda, the adults. And then we're happy, too, because we can eat all the Japanese sushi and things like that. And if, if one week we'll go to a certain place, it changed, going to each house, and that's the way they sort of kept on going.

TI: And so when you went around the houses, was it just the menfolk or did the whole family...

JM: The whole family. The whole family.

TI: Okay. And let's talk about a typical day, maybe in the summertime now, so talk about that in terms of waking up, the chores you might have and different things like that.

JM: Well, summer and winter too, both, I had to get up early, feed the horses, I'd go to the barn and feed the horse and bring 'em to the irrigation gates and drink water and thing like that. I'd kind of brush 'em off a little bit and then bring back into the barn.

TI: So this was before breakfast, you would, the first thing you would do?

JM: Before I went to school too, yeah, I had to do that.

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