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DG: Okay, so you went from Santa Anita in probably --

MH: To Amache.

DG: -- September, October of 1942 to Amache.

MH: Uh-huh.

DG: And then you were there. So this was 1943, maybe? Somewhere around that time that you were there for a while and then your husband got sick and at that same time your parents joined you?

MH: Uh-huh.

DG: Did you live together?

MH: They have their quarter because we have children and then only one room at camp.

DG: And were these -- and you were living in the barracks?

MH: Uh-huh.

DG: Okay. So...

MH: When we went to Amache camp, cement was still wet. I didn't know that cement wet become dark gray color. And then, wow, this cement is different because dark gray and then walk, going down so... but we bought carpet.

DG: Oh. So you had some cement floors in these barracks, and were they like the other ones where -- describe the barracks.

MH: But all barracks were cement.

DG: The same.

MH: Uh-huh.

DG: And several families lived together?

MH: Yeah, one family.

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