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JA: So when the day came to leave, can you describe that day to us?

MH: Yeah. It was a real sad thing, but my friends came and picked us up because see, we all sold our cars and everything, whatever we owned, much as we can at whatever price we can get for it is the way everybody got rid of their stuff.

JA: And what kind of prices were you getting?

MH: Very nominal. It's a throw-away price, is what you call it, but you had to get rid it because we don't know when we're coming back.

JA: So 20 percent of its normal value or 10 percent?

MH: Yeah. something in that nature. Yes, it was. And some things you almost have to give it away and some people just left it. See, that's why they were all stolen because you left it. And no, they came... one of our friends came to pick us up. Most of them, we had Caucasian friends that were willing to do that, pick us up, take us to the railroad station. Then we had to go to the railroad station in Kirkland on the same track that runs right through Midlakes, that same track. So we were loaded up in Kirkland on the siding someplace over there, so we had to get there at a certain time, all of us.

JA: So I have seen pictures of Bainbridge Island evacuation where the army trucks went to the farms and loaded...

MH: Oh, picked them up?

JA: This did not occur in Bellevue?

MH: I don't think that nobody came after us. I can't remember them coming after us in the army truck. Yeah, we all went on private cars, they took us over there.

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