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MA: Do you remember hearing, I guess, for the first time, that you were going to have to leave and go to camp, and about the evacuation period?

KY: It's all a blur to me. But I do remember we did sell most of our things. We had a, kind of a packing shed, and we would bring all our things out to the shed, line 'em up, and people would come and buy. And what, what didn't sell, I really don't know what happened. We didn't store anything, we didn't take anything, so whatever happened, I don't know.

MA: So you had kind of a garage sale?

KY: Something like that, uh-huh. Right.

MA: So you, did you sell, like, your furniture and did you have a car?

KY: I don't think we had much furniture. We, we did have a nice Dodge pickup that we had just boughten, and I don't, I'm sure they sold it, but for a minimal, you know. And then, like I say, we didn't have much of a furniture, but we did have a lot of dishes, and they were just sold. Sold or given away, I don't recall. You know, like our refrigerator, we, it was just one of those icebox, it wasn't a regular refrigerator, it was just icebox. So as far as furniture, we didn't have much furniture. So I don't think there was that much to sell. But I know some of the people stored their things in, Wapato had this nice building right next to the Buddhist Church, it was called Kaikan, that was the name of the building, and they had just built that before evacuation. And I know some of the people stored their things in there, and that building is still standing. Yeah, it's a huge building, and they call that the Wapato Community Center now. And when I was there last year, I don't know how they can keep it up, but they were having a garage sale, so they must be raising funds to keep that building going. But we didn't, we didn't take anything to camp, you know, we just went with what, what we were allowed, one suitcase.

MA: What did your father do with the farm during that time? Did he continue to work, or just, did he leave it?

KY: I think we just left it. We couldn't sell it or anything, it was just leased, so we couldn't sell it. I think we just left it there. And I have no idea what happened after that. We didn't even go back.

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