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BF: Thank you. We are out of time, and I think that's a really nice spot to end, unless Cherry, I'm sorry, I should have asked you, are there any questions you want to...?

CK: No, no, you're have to make it.

BF: Yeah, we have about seven minutes, so...

GU: Yeah, sure.

CK: What were you... this last thing you said...

GU: Yeah.

CK: Oh, I understand there was, there was some feeling that this may be the end of your, your association with any Japanese American project. Is that, is that so, and why would you... do you have that feeling or...

GU: Yeah, I do. I, when I was doing this in the '80s, from roughly '82 to '92, when we finally got this entitlement thing nailed down in the Bush administration, that's ten years. In 1982, my oldest child, my older child, now eighteen, was three. And, that wasn't so nice, not to be around the house when, maybe, I should have been. I also feel that in some ways it maybe negatively affected my career, because I was taking a lot of time doing this. It was a high pressure job at Random House. And I suppose a third reason is that it's time for other people to do it. I mean, we have some remarkable talent and I'm willing to talk to 'em, but I think, I think people like Mitch and others should step forward. And I'm fifty-five years old. I'm tired.

CK: I'm tired.

GU: But you're not so tired, that's the difference. That's the difference between you and me. [Laughs]

CK: Oh, yeah?

BF: That was a nice question.

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