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JT: And where did you go to elementary school?

MT: Porter school.

JT: Because Kenji went to Everett, which is on the other side of...

MT: Well, Everett closed in 1931, the year that (...) I was born.

JT: You were born. Okay, otherwise you, I'm trying to think. No, you would have ended up at Porter School anyway, I think. And did you go there through the eighth grade?

MT: Let's see. No, the war started, so when I was ten, I had to move from Alameda to Palo Alto.

JT: Okay, and why did you go to Palo Alto?

MT: Because my birth parents were living there.

JT: Okay. And did your, Mr. and Mrs. Nakata, your parents, went with you?

MT: We all went.

JT: You all went, okay.

MT: Well, actually, when I was growing up, our grandmother lived with us, my father's mother, she lived with us until we went to camp. And then, because Alameda had to move out early. We had another uncle that lived in, one of her sons lived in Sacramento.

JT: I see.

MT: So she moved to Sacramento and we went to Palo Alto.

JT: And then from Palo Alto, that was to leave Alameda immediately, where did you go for...

MT: Then we went to Santa Anita.

JT: Oh, you were far enough south to go to Santa Anita, not Tanforan?

MT: Then from Santa Anita we went to Heart Mountain.

JT: I see. That's how you got to Heart Mountain, and Kenji, the Tomitas went to Topaz.

MT: Uh-huh.

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