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AI: So in September of '46, by then you had turned sixteen?

AS: Uh-huh.

AI: Did you have any kind of birthday celebration?

AS: In camp?

AI: Uh-huh.

AS: Yeah.

AI: What was that like?

AS: Well, you know, like they deliver milk and they deliver ice, so, and the Niseis in camp were doing that. So they know, like if you had a birthday, for my birthday, anyway, my mother would ask for extra milk and extra ice and she would make ice cream.

AI: Oh, that must've been a real treat?

AS: Yeah, right. And since we, we had a kerosene stove and, and icebox and things, so she would, she would bake a cake. (Actually, my mother did not bake a cake herself, since she did not have an oven.)

AI: So even in camp you had a birthday cake and ice cream.

AS: Right.

AI: What about some other celebrations, did you do anything around Christmas time or New Year's while you were in camp?

AS: Yes, but, it's, because we, we only have certain things that we can, we can buy. We didn't have enough food to make all the fancy stuff. So you just, so she just made stuff that we were able to, to get, celebrate New Year's.

AI: Were there any kind of New Year's activities?

AS: No.

AI: Not really.

AS: Not really, no.

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