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DG: So where were you then when you came to join him?

KS: I was sort of helping operate a restaurant for about three or four months.

DG: Where?

KS: In Salt Lake City.

DG: Was David with you then?

KS: Yes. The restaurant was a rather interesting endeavor because Toru was supposed to go into the army and he didn't know how David and I were going to survive on a private's pay. So he arranged with a person that had a restaurant to let me operate it and pay him rent for the operation. And then Toru went into the army and after being at Ft. Douglas for a week, they decided well, they were hard up, but not that hard up and sent him home again. [Laughs] So he never made the army. This was in June and I operated the restaurant May, June and July and by that (time) after we had had the restaurant for a couple of months, Toru the military order excluding us from the West coast was lifted; (then) Toru spent the last two weeks in July trying to get out of that contract that he got me into and the people that owned the restaurant in the meantime had two or three months of vacation time, so they were happy to take it back. They didn't penalize us for giving it up. Since Toru got me out of that, he came back up to Seattle (there was) no place for him to live. He had to stay with friends. And I don't think he got a room there. You just slept on the couch or on the floor, didn't ya?

TS: Where's this?

KS: At Itoi's.

TS: Oh, there was a bed.

KS: And there was a bed. I never did see where he stayed.

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