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JA: And can you describe the daily life, a typical day for yourself.

MH: In camp?

JA: Yes.

MH: In camp I had to get up first and make a dash for breakfast with my son, dress him first and run for breakfast, is what you have to do, otherwise, you be in the tail end of the line. You'll be there forever. You never know when you get to eat again. So that's our main thing to start with. Then I come home and send my husband out to breakfast or whatever he has to do so I can watch the office while he's gone. And then after that I have to pick up all the laundry and go stand in line at the laundry room, see if I can get my laundry done there, and, but my son was always running around with my brother so that worked out real well. He was my babysitter and so then that way he doesn't get lost. [Laughs] But I had to do my laundry and things like that and before you know it, it's lunchtime, and we had to pick up the kids and off to lunch we go and another line we had to stand again. And in the afternoon involved, I used to visit with the neighbors or something and learn how to knit and crochet, which I've never done before, never had the time. So I was able to learn those things from the women around the neighborhood and things like that, which made it very interesting. But as we were staying there longer and longer, my husband needed more help with the plans for the parties that they have in the cafeteria so the decoration committee and all this other things that go with it, good in delegating it, of course. And so they had a lot of nice parties for them, too. They keep all the young people busy.

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