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FG: And so people, many people, stored their belongings in different places. I think the Seattle Buddhist Church was one of them. I think there were several other places they stored, but we didn't have to because we had a house.

LH: You had a house and so where did you put it? Did you put it in the attic?

FG: Basement.

LH: Basement.

FG: And we came back and it was empty, but that's okay.

LH: So what did you -- did other families store things in your basement as well or did they just go to the Buddhist Church?

FG: Just our... we had a neighbor. We had a Japanese neighbor across the street and they sold their house and so they left some of their things. Not very much, though, but just a few things.

LH: And what did your mother do about the house in terms of having someone look after it? Did she ask someone to look after it?

FG: If I'm not mistaken, I think it was the WRA that offered to find someone to rent the house, and there was a family that rented it. And they were paying rent for the first, I think about four or five months and that was it.

LH: So they just paid rent for the first four or five months and then they stopped, just the checks stopped coming in camp.

FG: Uh-huh.

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