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EG: And then what were your plans? You had been telling all your friends you're gonna go to America.

TM: And, why yes. The instruction from my father was that I should come back to the United States soon after the graduation. And the school was over early March and I left Japan, I think, I think about the middle or twentieth of March, and as soon as I got the diploma, I left.

EG: So you told them you were going to go back to America and you did. Where did you, where did you come to in America then?

TM: I beg your pardon?

EG: Where did you come to in America?

TM: Well, I came back to Seattle.

EG: Seattle.

TM: Where my, well, not quite an uncle, but something like uncle was here.

EG: Your father wasn't here?

TM: Father, no. He had gone back two years before that.

EG: Before you finished high school.

TM: And his cousin was here in Seattle. So I came here, relying on him.

EG: You, he was kind of like an uncle, but he was your, he was your father's cousin.

TM: Yes. But I used to call him uncle. [Laughs]

EG: And then they lived here in Seattle.

TM: Yes.

EG: Where in Seattle?

TM: Near Yesler way. Not too far from here.

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