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TI: So after high school, tell me what happened next.

HU: After high school? My oldest brother told me, he says, "You go be a dentist." And that didn't appeal to me very much. I wanted to be in the business. So I went to this private business college and I asked the superintendent, "I don't have any money. I'll do anything for the college, for tuition." So I cleaned the house, cleaned the school, and I paid for my tuition. And after two and a half or three years, I finished the course. We're going through the recession, hard work finding a house, business.

TI: And during this time, so this is in the, sort of, mid to late '30s, so the Depression was going on. I'm curious, what did your older brother do, your older brothers, Shigeru and Yoshi? What did they, kind of work did they do?

HU: They were farmers, growing strawberries and grapes.

TI: And I'm curious, because you mentioned earlier how the two of them were born and spent their childhood in Japan. And so how did you and Frank, you were much younger, so it seemed like there was almost a generational difference. Can you describe that relationship a little bit between your two older brothers and then the two younger boys, how that worked? Like, just, what kind of relationship did you have?

HU: We worked beautifully. We had a wonderful relationship, we helped one another. Two older ones knew we were kids, and we knew the two older ones were big brothers.

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