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KL: Do you know the name of your mother's school where she taught?

UN: It was Sawtelle Japanese school.

KL: And you said she started doing that because your father was recuperating.

UN: Right. And when he recovered, she quit that job, and my father started a fruit stand business. So we, the whole family worked at the fruit stand. We were part of Safeway store at the time.

KL: Was that its name, the stand's name?

UN: No. He had a fruit stand concession in the Safeway store.

KL: You said that he got the ulcers from the stress of working for the newspaper? Do you know what was the cause of the stress? Like did he have too much work or were there politics that were troubling?

UN: Oh, I don't know. I just know that he had ulcers that one time. And then one day he comes home and says, family says, "Reverend Baba prayed for me, and now I've been saved. So I'm not gonna have ulcers anymore." And that was it. From that day on, his ulcer disappeared. [Laughs]

KL: Who was Reverend Baba?

UN: He was a minister, a Christian minister.

KL: What was your family's church, and what was Reverend Baba's church?

UN: Our church was United Methodist church.

KL: Were you part of West L.A. United Methodist at that time?

UN: Yes.

KL: What were your mom's feeling about teaching at the Japanese school?

UN: I think she enjoyed it. My mother was a very talented person. Then the war years came.

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