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Title: Rae Takekawa Interview
Narrator: Rae Takekawa
Interviewer: Alice Ito
Location: Vancouver, Washington
Date: May 8, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-trae-01-0030

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AI: Did you -- it sounds like Chinook was a very small town, so I imagine there weren't a lot of social activities at school or...

RT: Oh, they did have their social activities. I think primarily dances, but we never went. Yeah. Well, for one thing I couldn't imagine my father ever letting me go, but there wasn't... well, as far as I was concerned, I wasn't particularly interested in, in trying to go. We just didn't go.

AI: And you weren't dating, or you weren't allowed to date or...

RT: No, we, I never, never even thought about dating, and, I don't know. I bet my father wouldn't have let me go out at that time. Yeah. He was quite strict about that, yeah. Now, my brothers on the other hand, as they got older, I think they did. They didn't date, but they would go into, sometimes. Especially Tats, I think; but not me. The social activities at most might be like a school play or something, and possibly I might go in for that. They would have to drive me.

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