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JN: Okay, after the war, what did, what did your family do after the war?

LK: After the war, let's see... my, my father went back to work for Mr. Friedlander, and then decided he would open his own store, and so Mr. Friedlander loaned him the money to start his own jewelry store. And so he opened a store on Jackson Street and continued to commute every day to work there. And, and I remember... oh, and my mother was, did her garden work at home, and my... well, I was a senior in high school and I wanted to go to college. And so my father said, "No, you can't go to college. I have to save my money for Frank." And so my mother, who had to quit... she, well that's another long story, but she, she said, "Well, I'll find a way to get money for, so Lilly can go to school." And so that's when she planted raspberries. She decided... she went to a co-op meeting or something, anyway, she, and everybody else on the island was raising strawberries. And so my mother went and got raspberry plants and she planted, it started out with like 5 acres of raspberries, it grew into 15 acres. But anyway, so my father continued at the jewelry store and my mother raised raspberries, and she got pickers to stay, who were here from Canada. She got them to stay after the strawberry season to stay longer to pick raspberries. And then when she didn't have enough pickers, she went to the Filipino families, the Filipino families, the wives, and asked them if they would come and pick raspberries. And so she raised raspberries for, I don't know, ten, fifteen years. And that put Frank... we swear that put Frank and I both through college, and the other two kids, too. 'Cause she made, I think, brought home more money than my father did at his jewelry store. [Laughs]

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