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DG: You stayed in the Seattle area? Did you ever go further?

MM: To live?

DG: A trip, or...

MM: Oh, trip? Oh, we used to drive down to Wapato 'cause we had cousins. And down to Portland and... my brother loved to drive. So he wanted to go. So, dakara, what's the farthest he drove, Aya? I don't know.

DG: This was on Sundays?

MM: Sundays, weekdays, whatever, you know. So...

DG: Your father would close the store?

MM: No, Father was, Father... yeah, sometime when we down to, ano, some church no conference down in Portland, I think he drove down, without Dad, just he and his friends.

DG: This is what church?

MM: Nichiren. At one time he went Nichiren. And, and mostly social. He went to Presbyterian church, too, but... [Laughs] Oh, I shouldn't have stuck my tongue out.

DG: That's okay. But you grew up in the Presbyterian church?

MM: Yeah. And she was the Sunday School teacher.

DG: Tell me a little bit about going to school, Aya.

AM: Pardon me?

DG: Going to school.

MM: Something about going to school.

AM: Bailey Gatzert School.

DG: Okay.

AM: But it was called the Main Street School, wasn't it?

MM: Yeah. You know where, ano, that, ano, dentist shop is? Ano, across the street from Uji's? That used to be a school.

AM: Where... let's see, that...

MM: It used to be a Chinese, it used to be a Chinese restaurant there.

AM: No.

MM: And then, ano...

AM: They had that...

MM: H. T. Kubota no...

AM: H. T. Kubota's son had, has that building (now). That used to be the kindergarten. I used to go there in first grade, first grade.

DG: So did you walk?

MM: And then the whole school moved and they all marched up to Twelfth Avenue, she was saying.

DG: Did you live here? At that time? Where did you live?

MM: Oh, yeah. We had upstairs naka rooms. What else is there to say?

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