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RP: Well, a lot of sort of like a lot of gender roles really changed in camp. You had women working jobs for the first time and men knitting.

MI: What was that story? I'm trying to think. A guy was drumming it into us in high school. About that lady... it was historical. Who wrote that story? But this woman would knit and each one of those knit pearls stood for somebody's... and it was never something good. But it was some kind of a meaning. Isn't that funny? I could remember some people's names, sometimes I can't remember the name of a book. Yeah, I might think about it. Let's see, what else is there?

RP: Did you get to know Goto at all? Dr. Goto?

MI: No, but his brother wanted to date me.

RP: Ray?

MI: Tosh.

RP: Tosh.

MI: My mother said, "No." 'Cause he was with the yogores.

RP: Oh. All the yogores were after you.

MI: No, no. But Tosh was really not a yogore. He just joined the group. He was from Montebello. And, and when my mother said that the... well, I said, "The yogores are having this dance and Tosh Goto, Dr. Goto's younger brother, wants to take me out on a date." She says, "Where? Who's giving the party?" "Yogores." "No, you can't go." Well, see, I was only what, sixteen, seventeen. So the poor guy spent the evening with me in the old barracks. It's all you could do. Where else could you go?

RP: Yeah, other than parties and dances, there's no real hangout.

MI: Yeah.

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