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AL: This is Alisa Lynch with Art and Kimi Ogami on the 10th of August. This is tape two of an oral history interview which is part two of an oral history interview that started in 2004. So you were just talking about Count Taichibana in Japan being ill and a request to get him medication.

AO: Yes, his doctor approached me said that the medication needed for Count Tachibana is not available, that if I would be able to get the prescription for him. I says I'll try so I went to doctor... Colonel Duryea and explained the situation and immediately told me to go see a doctor, I can't remember his name at the time.

AL: But you were able to get him the medicine?

AO: Yes, so he wrote out the prescription, the pharmacy department knew me and unquestioningly they filled the prescription. And I took the special express to Yanagawa where Mr. Tachibana lived and delivered the medication for him.

AL: That's great that you were able to help him. Just going back to the question that I was asking you when we changed tapes about being away from Los Angeles for eleven years, what were some of the big differences that you noticed from when you had left in 1942 to when you came back in 1953 in coming back to the States?

AO: Everything seemed to be not changed that much even though it was eleven years. I wasn't used to driving but I passed my driving test with no problem because my sister's car was automatic and I was used to a stick shift. And so my left feet was wandering around for the clutch and so the driving examiner knew that I knew how to drive.

AL: Right.

AO: So it was a very simple test.

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