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[Translated from Japanese]

TY: Yes. By the way, I found this. This is a letter addressed to your husband in Crystal City. It tells about your family.

YI: Is that right?

TY: Yes. So this is the way you were communicating with each other.

YI: I understand that there is a copy of all the letters in Washington D.C. I heard that when he went to see the office, he was told he could get a copy of the letters any time he wanted. The father's letters.

TY: Besides these telegrams, how did you stay in contact?

YI: Huh?

TY: Besides these telegrams, how did you contact your husband?

YI: Mostly letters. It was bluish paper. You had to use designated paper. Besides, there were certain things you were not supposed to write. Things you were forbidden to discuss. About the camp. What it was like in the camp. If you wrote such things, they cut them out.

TY: So they read your letters.

YI: Some part was cut out. Someone who could read Japanese must have examined them.

TY: They censored. How often did you write to each other? Exchange of the letters?

YI: I wonder how long it took.

TY: Because of the censorship, it must have taken a long time.

YI: Because they had censorship.

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