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DG: What is giri?

GF: Giri is what you're supposed... well, it's hard to say. I just know the word giri. It's...

DG: It's my understanding that it's paying back to something that was given to you from outside your family. On is more your family structure.

GF: Yeah, something like that, yes. That you owe something from way back and that's, you have a giri to the family, giri to this and that. I think you're right there.

DG: So Lions is kind of giri responsibility.

GF: Giri to the public. Yeah, responsibility to the public 'cause you can't do anything yourself. It's pretty hard to do something yourself unless you're a multimillionaire, giving money is not the main thing. You got to give something beyond that. So that's something.

DG: Well, thank you very much.

GF: [Laughs] I don't know if I did any good or not.

DG: It was great.

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