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LH: So I mean, did, did your brother sort of take over the role...

FF: Yeah, he took over the store because as you know, the alien law, you know, aliens couldn't own businesses, and my brother took over to run the tavern, but, until we had to move.

LH: And this is your older brother?

FF: Yeah, oldest brother Seibo had to take over. And then there was June, my other sister, who helped out at the store. And that was the tough part, where you know you have to get rid of the business and when the war broke out you're gonna be incarcerated. And I, of course, I was so young all I knew was we were gonna go somewhere... that's about it. I wasn't that in-depth with knowledge about what's happening except there's war. And that the thing that I sort of remember was someone broke our tavern window and wrote the word, I mean, wrote the word "Jap" on this wooden plank we put across the broken window. And I kind of thought, "Gee, how come," you know, and as young as I was -- I was eleven then, 'cause we went to camp and I was twelve -- and I didn't know how to deal with that. I just felt... you just want to assimilate within the family and friends and that's about it.

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