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RP: So you kind of had a built in, you know, group of friends and...

HN: Group of friends, yes.

RP: Network of support.

HN: My dad or my mother did have a group of network of friends. But they also, in east L.A. was a pretty big Japanese American community. 'Cause that's where all the immigrants congregated when they came to southern California.

RP: That's usually the case.

HN: Yeah, it's usually the case in any big town. New York city has what, all of 'em. Puerto Ricans, then Irish...

RP: Russian Jews.

HN: All Russians. They all went to one area in New York, so I guess that's the way they come and then they split out from there. But, that's the same way it was here, too, in southern California.

RP: That community was very diverse. Many people speak about Russians, Hispanics, Japanese Americans.

HN: Yeah.

RP: Did you, uh, did you have friends that represented all those different groups? Or did you hang around with one...

HN: Yeah, well, I had Jewish friends and Russian friends, yes, Caucasian friends. Went to First Street School, grammar school. And then went to Hollenbeck Junior High School in east L.A. And I never got to Roosevelt High School 'cause I was too young. My brother and older sister went to Roosevelt High School.

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