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AI: And then, during those years, at the same time as you were teaching, I understand that some of the families, Japanese American families started returning to the Sacramento area?

RC: Uh-huh.

AI: So, did you have any of them in your classes, coming back to the area in the '40s, late '40s?

RC: Very few at the school that I was in. It was a downtown school and they were usually out in the south area of Sacramento, and, or the east part of Sacramento. Once in a while there would be one or two. They had been born after the fact, you see.

AI: Right.

RC: Of the relocation center.

AI: Right.

RC: But their parents would tell them about it.

AI: Well, I'm wondering about what the, the tone, or the feeling toward Japanese Americans was in the, after the war in the Sacramento area. Because you had mentioned about some ugliness when you had first decided to go and work in the relocation center. Now, after the war, what was the feeling?

RC: I don't think there has been an ill will at all. Of course, you'd have to ask somebody who went through the experience. Maybe they had situations that were difficult. I don't know. Those that I have met, we have just had a wonderful relationship. The man that interviewed me for the book, he was, he and I were just, we just got along great, and he never once made any comment that he had had a troublesome time. Marion, same with her. (...) I think people are living with a sense of happiness. And I think that the change that I mentioned is evident in their experience.

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