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RP: What do you remember doing for fun? What was the most pleasing activity when you were growing up?

FY: We used to love to skate, play hopscotch, very simple things like that. We had clubs, too.

RP: Like what?

FY: Girl Reserves, which was a YWCA organization.

RP: And that was in part of your church?

FY: No, it was part of YWCA.

RP: And did you, you left in to go to Japan in 1940?

FY: Yes, uh-huh.

RP: So you were already a senior by then?

FY: Oh, I graduated from high school, and then I went to Japan.

RP: Did you have any ambitions at that point in time, what you saw yourself doing?

FY: My parents wanted us to understand our heritage. That's why a lot of Niseis went to Japan.

RP: How about after that?

FY: Coming back?

RP: Did your parents have plans for you?

FY: After, well, I was, I came back, and then I went to junior college, and then state university, state university, and got my master's degree.

RP: That was all during the war?

FY: No. Let's see now. Afterwards. My husband, I met my husband in Chicago. One of his colleagues said, "Come back to Sacramento because we need a good internist," so we came back to Sacramento. And then I said to him, "Well, it's my turn to go to college now." I sort of helped him when he was going to university. He got through university through GI bill, and I said to him, "Well, I feel like a unfinished woman, so let me go back to university," and I got my master's degree.

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