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Title: Toru Sakahara - Kiyo Sakahara Interview I
Narrator: Toru Sakahara, Kiyo Sakahara
Interviewer: Dee Goto
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: February 24, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-storu_g-01-0015

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DG: What was your brother doing all this time?

KS: He went to school in the Eugene Bible School in Oregon.

DG: For high school?

KS: No, no. He finished high school and this bible school accepted him and it was like a junior college, I guess. But he had to take subjects there before he could go to Oregon State. Was it Oregon, yeah, that's at Eugene. Anyway he wasn't able to get into a regular university but the bible school kept... I think that he had an awful hard time making a go of things because he had to find housing. There were some people that hired boys in their homes but not very many.

DG: So you could earn your way to go to school by doing housework?

KS: That's right. In those days, we were paid about ten dollars a month and that gave you some spending money.

DG: Plus you had your board and room.

KS: We got our board and room, and most of the time they were very generous about giving you clothes.

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