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EK: Well, my understanding is the community leaders feel a strong bond with you and really appreciated the kind of work that you put into this, your heart and soul. And I even heard that you came and spoke at Sox Kitashima's funeral, which I thought was a really nice illustration of, it was work but it was something more than work, it was the personal connection. Can you talk about the relationships like that?

BB: Well, here we are how many years later, thirty years later? And sitting here down today with you, or at Sox's... I've been invited out to different places in Hawaii, down in L.A. different times, by members of the community during different instances. Whenever I've gone to my employer, right now it's a big law firm, and before it was a tech company, and I said I'm going to do something and take time for it, two thousand percent supportive of it when you start explaining it. But I'll do everything I can. They were my friends. My colleagues and my friends back then. And I'll never forget what it meant to me, so I'm not going to sit here now, whether it's Kay Ochi, lives down in San Diego, I'm going to be down in San Diego in the fall, and I'm trying to set up a time to see her. Or, like you mentioned, Sox, or Carole Hayashino, I saw her and Bill Kaneko over in Hawaii last year. Bill Kaneko is a lifelong friend. Bill Kaneko went to law school, and I gave him furniture out of my house, and stopped there and all. And these were friends that I made and there was a bond there and we worked together. That's just because Bob Muller decided I needed a new job, that's the thing that, my friends went away, and I'm not the type of person that turns their back or forgets. I enjoy the folks that I've met.

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