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DG: Okay, then let's continue with what led you to come back.

GF: What led me to come back? My folks were here, see. And I know our thought is that we should be good to our parents. That's main thing because they brought you up and your parents is number -- you should obey your parents.

DG: Was your grandmother still alive?

GF: Yes, grandmother was still alive at that time.

DG: Okay. Now, she wanted them to come back to Japan still.

GF: No, I don't think so. She was thinking about money. The old people in Japan, they says well, at that time I think it was two to one, I think, and she always used to, "Hey, write to mother and father and tell them to send money." Well, I don't blame her because she was taking us, taking care of us.

DG: Sure.

GF: So I used to write to Mother, and say, "Your mother and father, you owe them a lot, and you should obey what they tell you."

DG: So you wrote in Japanese.

GF: I wrote in Japanese, yes. And so I did write to them that way, and my mother, I don't think she ever answered me on that. But then you get that feeling, too, your mother and father, you should obey them because that's how we were taught.

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