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TY: [Jpn.] Yes. By the way, I heard that there were various meetings at the camp. Did you participate in them?

MK: [Jpn.] No. I did not go to any of those.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Jpn.] The young people...

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] They got together and held meetings.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Jpn.] Old people like me were better off not to attend.

TY: [Jpn.] But how about your husband?

MK: [Jpn.] What?

TY: [Jpn.] Your husband? Your husband also...

MK: [Jpn.] This is a Japanese camp, you know.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] But there were not many black people then. Well, in Seattle I hardly saw black people.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] Not much.

TY: [Jpn.] Oh, excuse me. I meant your husband (goshujin) and not black people (kokujin). Did your husband attend the meetings?

MK: [Jpn.] Oh, did you say kokujin (black people)?

TY: [Jpn.] I am sorry.

MK: [Jpn.] Kokujin... Kokujin [Laughs]

TY: [Jpn.] I meant "goshujin."

MK: [Jpn.] Oh, my husband. My husband?

TY: [Jpn.] Did he attend those meetings?

MK: [Jpn.] No. He hardly went there. Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] Then how about Hideo?

MK: [Jpn.] I don't know much about Hideo because he is over there. He is in "Alaska."

TY: [Jpn.] Then he...

MK: [Jpn.] The other side had its own...

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] I thought he was getting along well with others.

TY: [Jpn.] Was that singles quarter far away?

MK: [Jpn.] No. We were at one end and he was at the other end. The Seventy-three was the one end. "Alaska" was at the end, too. So you had to walk quite a while to reach the end.

TY: [Jpn.] So it's only while you were in the mess hall that you saw him once in a while?

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah, because he was also pretty busy, we rarely saw each other while we stayed there.

TY: [Jpn.] Yeah.

MK: [Jpn.] He was doing whatever he wanted to do.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah.

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