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DG: Okay Fumi, tell me about this incident in 8th grade.

FN: No, what, what... you know, going to a small school in Blanchard, I was skipped a half a grade and I went from 8th A into the 8th. No 8th B into the 8th A. And I tell you, when you don't remem, have any learning from the first part of the book you feel kind of frantic. So it was really difficult for me to get started again. But, but then after graduating there I went to Whatcom, Whatcom High School.

DG: But you said something about a friend.

FN: Yeah, I had, yeah I made a very good friend. Her, her, her parents were English. And we were friends until oh, a few years ago when she passed away, passed on, but we were really good friends.

DG: All these years.

FN: Yeah uh-huh. All those years. Right, uh-huh...

DG: Now, did you speak Japanese in your house?

FN: No.

DG: You didn't.

FN: I learned very little from my mother that. But whatever I learned...

DG: Oh, no kidding.

FN: Huh?

DG: So you spoke English in your household.

FN: Yeah, we didn't speak very much English, I mean Japanese.

DG: Interesting.

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