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TI: So did you have your own Japanese bath, or did you go...

WM: Yeah. That was nice. It's the hot water and then you go in there. You can't go in there, you got to wash first and then go in the bath.

TI: Good. So you have your own personal family bath.

WM: Yeah.

TI: And so for your family, describe the bath. What was the, like, the order? I mean, who would go first, who would go second? How would that...

WM: If somebody in there, we (had to) wait and we'd go after (...).

TI: Well, tell me about your father. Would he be, like, first or last?

WM: Last, I think.

TI: He'd be last.

WM: He got to close the door, everything. See, we got to go out in the garage, they got the bath on the other side.

TI: And tell me, who would prepare the bath? I mean, like, start the fire and do all that? Who would do all that?

WM: Dad used to do, but now, you got to do it later. We knew how to put the gas in.

TI: Oh, so you had gas, so that was easier. So you would... so first your dad would do it, but as you got older, then pretty soon...

WM: We didn't want to do it but...

TI: ...the kids could do it.

WM: Before, they used to put wood in and do it, but gas, more faster.

TI: And then, at the end, who would have to clean out the bath?

WM: They, it's just wood, cleaned that.

TI: And then after the bath, then you would go to bed and go to sleep?

WM: Yeah.

TI: Okay, good.

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