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TL: When you think about the way in which you grew up and the way in which you were raised and then the way that you've tried to raise your own children, what are some of the... what are some of the things that you've tried to pass on that you valued and what are some of the things that are different, different because of the different times that you live in?

AT: Well, I was sent to Japan when I was a little baby, and I came back to America, I was thirteen years old. It was quite difficult for me to have a real close relation with my mother, or my father was a stepfather so it was not my real father so there was always this feeling of separate distance to father or to mother. So I wanted to keep my children with me other than the times they traveled or went to school and that worked out quite well 'cause George was always a family man. He enjoyed children. We have traveled together when we went on the camping trips and all that family affair and doing was very important to both of us.

TL: When you think about the kind of young woman that you were when you first moved to Seattle to marry George and you think about the person you've become, what are the greatest changes that you think you might have made?

AT: I don't know about changes. It just seems like everything worked the way I would have... even if it wasn't George, it would have been probably the way. George was so busy with his own works that I think I was sort of planning family doings or trips or even George's things, his exhibitions or whatever. I think I was very much involved in that. I don't know whether it was good or bad. [Laughs]

TL: Are there any other topics that you would like to talk about?

AT: About George?

TL: Or about yourself or about the life that you had together?

AT: I think I'm very pleased. I don't think I have any other way. I can't think of any other way that would have been better.

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