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And I found in her later years of life she understood English much more than she let on.

Q: So you spent a lot of time out of doors. Was it warm all year around?

Takaezu: Yes, it was. Yes. Yes.

Q: Were there hopes and dreams your mother and father had for you? Did you sense your parents hoped the children would become highly educated?

Takaezu: My mother was educated to begin with, and so she wanted that for us, but she found it was very difficult in a way, because we didn't have that kind of means, but we all did whatever we could. I managed to go to school on my own. Even going to Cranbrook after I taught in Hawaii for a while, and even at a place like adult education classes in Hawaii at the Y, and was art teacher in a grade school and saved enough money to go for one year to Cranbrook. And so really if I have done something, nobody should be envious of me, because I mastered it all on my own. But I can't say that completely, because I had a lot of encouragement and friends who helped me. Like when I was in Hawaii, I had some good friends, people who took my class at the Y. There was a woman by the name of Mrs. Dean [Leora Elvena Parmlee Dean]. Her husband [Arthur Lyman Dean] was the first