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RP: Did Jack, your brother Jack, mention in his book about your father being a little, having a difficult time sort of adjusting to...

AS: Oh yeah, he had kinda, we think he was having a nervous breakdown, Jimmy Goto come and talk to my dad, you know.

RP: Jack also came on a visit, too.

AS: He did? I think he kinda, 'cause he was in his, my dad was in late fifties or early sixties. He was pretty young, could do things, but he turned out okay.

RP: He was an extremely active, worldly...

AS: I think he really got him... well, that was a lot for him to do, to get the ranch. He had the ten acre there and a house there and all that, and he had to get everything settled. Good thing we're all grown up and could do things, just close the house up and everything, but I think it really... but my mom's a pretty strong lady. She did...

RP: How did, what was her attitude about this whole experience? How did she...

AS: My mom, like, she's really, could handle everything. She's both... I think far, as far as educational wise, my mom had the more, she had gone to college, but she was that way. She looking from a life of not doing anything and just going to school, then she comes over and my father had this house with three, four boys. She had to cook and she didn't know how to cook, but she said she did. But her mind, you know... and she was real cultural, which at, at least that's the background to go into. And she was a, my mom and dad are both avid readers. They like to read a lot. I think that helps a lot, when you have some background to fall on, something. She liked music a lot.

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