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MN: Long Beach is really close to Terminal Island. How often did you go to Terminal Island?
YH: We went to Terminal Island about once a month, 'cause that's where we got our Japanese food.
MN: And what did you girls do while your parents were shopping?
YH: We went around the corner to the comic books store, 'cause my father said we could each have one comic book. It's, I always got Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. [Laughs]
MN: So, like, going to Terminal Island once a month was a treat for you.
YH: Yeah. It was.
MN: How did you get there?
YH: By car.
MN: So you went over the bridge. You didn't take the ferry.
YH: No. We never took the ferry.
MN: Did you interact with the Japanese American Terminal Islanders?
YH: Well, in a way we did because every time we went there these boys would be in the back of the car outside, and they'd be calling us all kinds of names and then we would, we would call them names too.
MN: Maybe they were flirting with you.
YH: I don't think so. I don't think they liked us because we were so snotty 'cause we didn't live in Terminal Island.
MN: So they knew you were outsiders.
YH: Right.
MN: Now, other than visiting Terminal Island, did your parents take other trips?
YH: No, we stayed around home most of the time, except sometimes in the winter we'd go to Mount Baldy. And my mother would pack a lunch because my father wanted us to see the snow, and so we would, she would make a rabbit stew and we'd take that to Mount Baldy, 'cause rabbit is really a nice meat because it's all white meat and there's lots of it.
MN: Now, the rabbit, were they being sold in stores, the rabbit meat?
YH: It must've been because we didn't have any rabbits at home, 'cause it was when we went to Des Moines that we had rabbits 'cause we had a place where they, where we could keep them in our basement.
MN: And those rabbit in Des Moines, did you eat them too, or were they pets?
YH: No, they, I think we ate them. We, they were not pets.
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