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RP: How about your uncle? He had established himself...

DK: He had a business, yeah, he had a business. He went to New York in...

Off Camera: 1927.

DK: 1927? Yeah, okay.

RP: Was it an import-export business?

DK: Yes.

Off Camera: Yes, uh-huh. Yeah, initially. But during the war he had trouble, yeah...

RP: Not too much...

Off Camera: Yeah, no ships were, were...

RP: Not too much being an importer.

Off Camera: So he went into domestic, a gift shop. A gift shop, so...

DK: Yeah. So, he was well-established there.

RP: Did he help you find the apartment or that was already existing?

DK: Or, Aki and, and Mary had the apartment, huh? When you went.

RP: Okay.

DK: And then, that was the same apartment when we went, too, so. And then he, did he buy the rooming house?

Off Camera: No. He leased it.

DK: Okay, he leased it.

Off Camera: Rooming house.

DK: Rooming house. So that my mother took care of the, took care of all the cleaning and everything. And we rented out rooms to people coming out of camps.

Off Camera: Yeah.

DK: After...

RP: Like a hostel.

Off Camera: Yeah, like a hostel.

DK: Yeah, uh-huh. Yeah.

RP: Oh.

DK: So that was, that's when I was going to high school too.

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