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MN: Let me ask you about church. When you moved to Seattle did your family go to church?

RN: Not exactly. My mother, she used to go to Buddhist church, but then my brother, he, all of a sudden he got interested in the Christian Church and he was very active in the Presbyterian church in Seattle. He's my older brother, five years older than me. And my mother went to Buddhist church and my youngest sister went to Buddhist church. My mother used to say, go to, go to any church you want to. You don't have to go to Buddhist church. You go to any church you want to 'cause church is good for you. She was very broadminded in that way. And my brother, all of a sudden he became a real diehard Christian. He became a leader, all that, and he would make me go to Christian church, Presbyterian. Here I'm all dressed in my baseball outfit, ready to be picked up to go play a game on Sunday, he says, "You're gonna come to church." And we began to fight, and my mother says, go to church. She said, quit fighting. Oh, my brother and me, we used to, we never did get along. Well anyway, I ended up going to church. I told my kids outside waiting for me in the car, I says, I go and I says... but to this day we used to fight. Then all of a sudden, boom, he got interested with some friends in the market, vegetable market, like that. He got disinterested in church. And here he was making me, forcing me to go to church and all that, and all of a sudden he, he quits and he gets, got nothin' to do with the church.

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