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TI: So, George, we were talking about Crystal City, and you talked about school and the swimming pool, but as you were doing these things, as you were going to the pool, I know you have your brothers, but did you have other friends when you were in Crystal City?

GN: No, I don't recall, again, friends that I went around with. I don't even remember going around with my brothers, I just remember what I did myself.

TI: How about going to other families' houses or rooms? Do you remember doing that?

GN: No, I don't think we did that either. Not much there, just what I did on my own, that's what I remember. I remember going to the dentist where my oldest sister was an assistant to the dentist. And I remember she told me, I don't remember, but she told me that when the dentist poked me in the mouth and I had some pain, I bit his finger. She told me that, I remember that, but other than that, I don't remember if I had any friends or remember my brothers at all, I was all by myself most of the time.

TI: How about when you needed to be taken care of, like maybe when you got sick or something like that? Was it your mother or sister who took care of you?

GN: Yeah, my mother, of course. I heard that, when I was in Peru, I got really sick and almost died, I had some kind of a sickness, and my oldest sister, she stayed up all night trying to get my fever to go down, and because of her, my life was saved.

TI: Oh, so she was probably having, like, cold cloths?

GN: Yeah, all night, right. So I was, actually I was going to die if she didn't do that. That's what I heard. Yeah in Crystal City, I just remember what I did, I don't remember my friends or my brothers being with me.

TI: Do you ever remember getting in trouble for doing anything?

GN: No, no, not at all, never.

TI: Because you were, at the end, you were, what, about five or six years old?

GN: About six or so, right, six. And yeah, never got in trouble. I mean, all through my life I never got in trouble, I've been a good boy.

TI: How about like, do you remember any teachers when you were there? I mean, you were going to, I think, Japanese school?

GN: Gee, I don't remember that. I don't remember the classroom or whatever, just the exercise in the morning, I remember that.

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