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Title: Mutsu Homma Interview
Narrator: Mutsu Homma
Interviewers: Dee Goto (primary), Becky Fukuda (secondary)
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: August 27, 1997
Densho ID: denshovh-hmutsu-01-0025

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BF: So they had separate living area for the doctors and the dentists and medical people?

MH: Yeah.

BF: Oh. I didn't know that.

MH: Yeah. Those are people, they said that build new apartment, that's what apartment and then about five rooms. Nagayatte. And then my husband, "Oh, is this the storage room for the bags and the suitcase? Where is where we live?" And then people felt so badly. "Doctor, you have to live here." [Laughs] But the floor have a big hole, knots, and then we can see the five apartment, all the way through. You can see through the knots. So put the finger in, "Hello so-and-so. I'd like to talk to you." [Laughs]

BF: And you had one room, essentially, then, for the whole family?

MH: Yeah.

DG: And then the army cots and then the ticking with the hay that you slept on. So did you bring blankets or did they provide?

MH: We took some and then they provided some. Army blanket, so itchy.

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