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TI: So I'm at the end of my questions. The last question being -- and we can keep going -- but when you think back on your life, any kind of reflections on your life? You seem like a very positive person, and so I'm just wondering, anything that comes to mind in terms of what you think is important in life?

TH: That's important? No, I never thought of that. I still like to do volunteer work. When Keiro first opened on Martin Luther King Way how many years ago, forty-something years ago. But I still volunteer with them. That was one, it's satisfaction. I feel great about that.

TI: Well, this is kind of an interesting question, because you started volunteering when they first started. I'm trying to remember, was it last year or the year before? So they shut down, right, their nursing home? How did you feel about that?

TH: Terrible. I still feel terrible. I'd like to know why. It had something to do with money.

TI: And so to you, you feel terrible because they had to shut down when maybe they didn't need to? Or you just wish they hadn't done that?

TH: Yeah. Why did they have to? We raised a lot of money for... we bought about three or four vans through our Ayame-Kai. Poor management, I guess.

TI: Yeah, because I think about you having volunteered for, you said, over forty years, and then having to watch it close down.

TH: Yeah, it was sad.

TI: And it seemed to happen fairly fast, too.

TH: Very fast, yeah.

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