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DG: All right, is there anything else you want to add about camp?

TK: No, I can't. I think Hisa could, maybe. [Laughs] You don't remember though either, huh?

DG: Now, know your youngest sister Yuriko was a, was one of the group of girlfriends running around, the "seven-ups," can you just, can you tell me about how, why they were called the "seven-ups" and what you remember about them?

TK: No, I don't, because I wasn't part... because there were seven of 'em in there, they were called seven-ups, I think. And that was the same, they were all same age groups and in the same class, I think. They ran around together. That's all I remember. I wasn't involved with them, so I don't know.

DG: They, they left you alone? [Laughs]

TK: No, we were never, yeah, we'd never see each other. The group, we were always in a different place. Yeah, when I was at home in Bainbridge, like my dad would always tell me, "Yeah, the place you have to go is in the field and weed strawberries." But when we got in the camp we were gone and we were... the only time we were around was when it was time to eat. We would be near the mess halls. Other than that, we were never by the family. We were out-out, we were either swimming in the canal or doing baseball, football, something. We used to play cards in the rec. rooms and cook in there, we used to bring pots and pans and then at night we used to go in the camp where they had chickens. We'd kill all the chickens and bring it home, bring it back and then cook it in our mess hall -- not in the mess hall but in our, our rec. room. There was a little one barrack for rec. rooms and we used to cook in there and fry all the chickens and everybody'd come over there and have chicken dinners with us.

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