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DG: And then so when you got back, your parents were in Gresham by then.

GF: Yeah, we went to, at that time... were we in Gresham or were we in Portland? No, we were in Gresham. That's right, we were in Gresham. I think my folks were working for a farmer there and so as soon as I came back -- oh, no. Yeah, we lived in Gresham, I remember. My father was working for the mayor as a gardener and housekeeper and so forth. He was helping him out and we had, he had a house built for us, brand-new house, two-bedroom small house that my father lived there and that I remember.

DG: So there were no children here.

GF: No.

DG: The two of you came and then your brother went to school and then what did you do?

GF: Me? I was going to go to high school here because I figured I better. I went to high school and he says, "No, you don't have to come to high school, you finished high school in Japan. Why don't you go someplace else?" So I went to Portland and I went to Oregon Institute of Technology, and I took accounting there. And they said well, "I want to have proof that you did graduate from high school." So I took my Japanese diploma, and I think he had somebody translate it. And he says, "Yeah, you're okay." [Laughs] So I was going to day school, but pretty soon -- those days I had to make my own way because my folks, my folks were not that flush so I had to go work and then go to night school and so forth.

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