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TI: Harry, I want to ask, did you and Ethel get involved in, sort of, Japanese American organizations in Minneapolis like churches or the JACL, things like that?

HU: Yes, we had a church of all Japanese. And as the older folks died or they moved back to California, and then the Niseis started to go to their neighborhood church, we had to dissolve that church. That came to an end. And then we organized a social group of the older generation. We wanted to have them come twice a month, have lunch, and they'd talk and talk. And we provided that -- I wasn't the only originator, the other fellows did that. That is still going on, what is it, forty years? Something like that. Now we have become the older generation for that group. Sure, there's JACL. I'm a member but I don't participate in their activity. But we call it Nikkei group, where we get together twice a month. Everybody take turns volunteering lunch. So we, the girls do some knitting and other things, and we play... what is that, you call the numbers?

TI: Bingo?

HU: Bingo, and we have lunch. And we do that in a church we rent. I've been going for many years. I'm the oldest, one of the oldest members of that. [Laughs]

TI: That's good.

HU: But there's another social group, a group of twelve people. And we lost two males, they died. So we got eight or nine left in that friendly group. This is what Mother taught me: it's wonderful to have friends, especially in our age. That's what we have here in Minneapolis.

TI: That's good.

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