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Title: Fumiko Hayashida Interview
Narrator: Fumiko Hayashida
Interviewers: Lori Hoshino (primary), Alice Ito (secondary)
Location: Bainbridge Island, Washington
Date: March 16, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-hfumiko-01-0014

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LH: Did you and your family feel fairly safe from that kind of a threat?

FH: Oh yes, we didn't experience anything. In fact, friends will come and see him and he says, "Don't worry, you're a citizen, they can't take you!" And next day there's this rumor that we all have to go, it just kept going. And there was a policeman that my husband knew. He says, "Oh, no way you, Sab, you gotta, you can't go, they can't take you." He worked out in the field 'til the, because flowers were already blooming for the berries, just before the crop. It's too bad, I mean folks worked so hard.

LH: So, the strawberry crop, your family continued to work on, out in the fields?

FH: Oh, sure.

LH: Just like normal? And your crop was just about to come in?

FH: Yeah.

LH: And that's when you got word.

FH: They were starting to bloom, flowers.

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