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DG: So talk a little bit about your family, and how your father [Interruption] wanted you to stay together as a family. Can you explain a little bit about...

MM: But still when she wanted to go... when you wanted to go Japan, Papa was, mo, gone, ne? Yeah. 'Cause when we were growing up we always did things together.

DG: Right.

MM: And he was quite a family man. So on Sundays wa, Papa had a, those, that mukashi no, is a Model A Ford, big windows and very, you know, se ga takai cars. And he'd take us out to parks, inaka no ho. And he took us to, where is that, ano, where the Art Museum is...

DG: Which one is that?

MM: Up on Capitol Hill. They took us there. And then to another public park where they had big pools. I forgot the name of that place. But then our family is around the pool and the photographer was telling us, Kay and Papa on one end and Mama and I were in it, and you and Chiyo were together on the other one, I think so. But I haven't seen the picture for a long time now. But he used to take us around.

DG: Did you ever go to Playland?

MM: Oh, yeah. But not that... we were a little older then, so we went with friends. On the bus. None of the kids had cars then.

DG: There was supposed to be a whoopie ride where you could take the cars. Did you ever do that?

MM: Oh, that I don't know. Do you mean an old car? No, that I don't know. When we went to Playland we weren't at an age where we could drive, we were under that. So. But that Playland was...

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