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MA: When you were in Topaz, did you attend, like, a preschool or a kindergarten or anything like that?

AH: Uh-huh, I did.

MA: What are your memories of that, of that time?

AH: You know, I don't remember any of the preschool. I remember going to Sunday school. The Buddhist temple was really active in Topaz, I remember that. I remember going to the service and singing songs. They were called Gathas, and they still are called Gathas. And it's amazing that... I'm still very active in the Buddhist temple in Ogden, and we still sing the songs that I sang when I was in Topaz. And then I, they had the Obon festival, which is a summer festival, holiday, a big holiday for the Buddhists, and I remember learning how to do the Obon dancing there from age three. And I've been in the Obon every year ever since then, and I'm sixty-eight years old, so I participated in a lot of that all these years. And it's become a family tradition, too, that even now, my kids and my grandkids, we participate in this.

MA: That's interesting that it started in camp for you, that you learned the Obon dancing... that's interesting.

AH: Uh-huh, yeah.

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