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VY: Let's see. Oh, and did you have any summer jobs while you were going to school?

KI: Yes. We were... for some reason, we were always expected that we would go out every summer and work. My brother used to go to a farm, Nishimuras farm in Kent, and we're picking strawberries and beans and things. And one summer I did that, but other summers I would... I remember working in a frozen food plant where we would push carts around. And one summer I actually went to California and picked grapes. I remember another job I had was at the airport, and at the time they had airplanes that had... every airplane has a toilet. Well, there was this airplane called the B... I forget what it was, there was a six. And there was a toilet in the back, but the toilet consisted of a little bucket. And my job was to clean the toilet. Take the stuff out, dump it, and then put it back. And then they had another airplane where you stuck a hose in the back and you pumped water in it, it cleaned the toilet. So I was in the honey bucket. Of course, I delivered newspapers at once, but we were always asked, or at least encouraged to work because idle hands. [Laughs]

VY: When you had the job cleaning the airplanes, were there other people working with you?

KI: Oh, yeah, it was clearly a working-class job. It was not... cleaning other people's latrines, I mean, it was stinky. [Laughs]

VY: Sounds awful.

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