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TI: Okay, so after you get settled in a little bit, what would be a, kind of a typical day for you, your sisters, and your brother? How would the day unfold for you?

MN: Well, first of all, I guess my brother had to find work, 'cause we were going to be, he was going to get paid at whatever wages he was going to get, eight or sixteen dollars, I don't what he was going to get paid. And then we being, my kid sister and I were still being in school, had to walk across the whole campground to go to school, trek across the camp, we were up, we were in two different places when we first went to camp. We went to one block and we were moved to another block later, because of the circumstances. My big sister was already, my sister next to me had already gotten a job in the hospital as a stenographer, so we got to move way out to the uppermost part of the camp near the hospital. So it was a little bit nicer up there. But then we had to trek all diagonally across onto the bottom of the camp to go to school every day. Back and forth, eat lunch, back again. That was pretty rough because it was, of course, dusty and stormy. But we survived and just made do. And every time things got a little bit better, we were told that we were able to do this or do that. Or we eventually were able to meet with the people and form clubs and things like that. Within a year, we were able to do things like that.

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