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JT: And what about your other, your twin?

MT: Well, we all lived together. I lived with my biological mother, parents at that time, whereas my Alameda parents came back and, of course, got off the train at Palo Alto, and they immediately were in, put into a family in Los Altos, and they worked there for about a year until the house in Alameda was occupied until they would, we asked them to moved out.

JT: I see. Oh, so it was occupied during the war by another family.

MT: Yeah. Somebody, well, actually, we were very, very lucky because my father's... well, somebody that my father used to wash the car for...

JT: One of his clients.

MT: Decided that they were going to, I guess, maintain the house for us.

JT: Oh my gosh. Hakujin people?

MT: Yeah. Their name was Mulveny? You know them? I think so.

JT: Oh my gosh.

MT: He was a banker, the father. Anyway, he took care of the house and rented it out and, I guess, paid the taxes or whatever or anything. And then had this family live there, so most of our stuff that was left in the house was still there.

JT: Stayed intact. I think your mother told me something about that, because I know one time she, couple of times, she took me downstairs and wanted me to have some scrolls or something that she had had.

MT: See, like the Iwamasas, they left a box in the basement somewhere, and it was still there.

JT: It was intact?

MT: Yeah.

JT: Gosh, that's such an interesting story, I can remember being in that basement. Oh my gosh.

MT: Anyway...

JT: And then, so when you moved back to Alameda...

MT: I came back to Alameda.

JT: Alameda High School?

MT: Uh-huh.

JT: Okay. And who were your friends at Alameda High School in Japanese? Were there any Japanese there?

MT: Joan Narahara. Because she lived at the Gakuen.

JT: She lived at 2320?

MT: Yeah. So every morning we'd go to school together.

JT: Oh my gosh.

MT: And then I don't know whether you know Kazuko Sakurai?

JT: No.

MT: You don't know the Sakurais?

JT: Where did they live?

MT: I think they lived in one of those housings in the, by the naval air station.

JT: Oh, the projects.

MT: Yeah.

JT: So what about Carol Mayeda?

MT: Carol moved back to, I think, Berkeley. So I wasn't in touch with her.

JT: Okay, because they were an old Alameda family also. Joany just passed away a couple years ago.

MT: I see. Well, there were others, but...

JT: But those were your...

MT: In my class.

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