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DG: What kind of sleeping arrangements did you have?

FN: Huh?

DG: Who did you sleep with? Or did you sleep. Where?

FN: Well, yeah. The girls had to sleep together and [Inaudible], I don't know my mother ever did it though. With all those children and no washing machine, or nothing.

DG: Oh, so how did she wash?

FN: Well, she used to use, washboard and...

DG: Did you have to help?

FN: Well I don't recall helping too much. And then the hot water, no hot water. I don't know, she had the, they had those great big boilers. Stoves of course are the exactly same. Of course, we didn't have electric stoves even after married we had, would have the old kitchen stove. But, uh... some way or another. They, we didn't even worry about the neighbors and we didn't worry about anything. We didn't have to worry about things like that. So, but I often wondered how in the world we ever managed. I didn't think of myself, I thought of my mother how she ever managed and she was able to, even some of the Japanese came over and their life, their wife lived in, stayed in Japan but you know those, those are the type of people mother used to bring them over, have them come over and feed them and things. So we were close to very of the Japanese that lived in the Bellingham area too. So...

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