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KP: Interesting question here, to go back just a little bit to... you mentioned that in high school, while living in the town of Florin, you were used to, kind of, prejudice before Pearl Harbor? Do you remember saying that?

TK: Yeah, well...

KP: What kind of things did you experience --

TK: Well, we just didn't go out of our --

RP: -- the class was bad or whatever.

TK: Well, we didn't, I didn't run across anybody. But it was just there, you know what I mean? And we didn't... I don't know, ask for... I don't know what to, how to explain it. We didn't go outside just to look for it, looking for it, they just ignored it or we just, we don't bother them, they don't bother us, that type.

KP: So you were aware that there was a Japanese side of town and a non-Japanese side of town.

TK: Oh, yeah, on account of the school. You could tell. I mean, they didn't come right out and say, "Hey, you guys stay over there," or they didn't... but it's there.

RP: It was expressed from the fact that you went to a segregated school.

TK: Yeah.

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