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TI: So let's, let's talk about... because eventually your father did rejoin the family.

MK: Yes, he came back 1940, '43, late '43 or early '44, someplace thereabouts, I guess.

TI: So he comes from an internment camp.

MK: Livingston.

TI: Camp Livingston.

MK: Yeah, from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

TI: Okay, Santa Fe, New Mexico. So he was at Livingston, then went to Santa Fe and then is transferred to Jerome --

MK: Jerome.

TI: -- so the family gets together late '43. So tell me about that. What was it like to see your father after almost, almost, what, a year and a half, almost two years? Yeah, because it was December '41 when he was picked up.

MK: Three and a half, three years, three and a half years, something like that about. Three, forty --

TI: Well, '41, so '42 then '43, so that's two years that you hadn't really seen him.

MK: Two years. Yeah, two, two years. Little over two years.

TI: So how had he changed in those two years?

MK: I felt that he was really quiet. He wasn't himself when he came in. He was, he showed a lot of bitterness. And he, I think he was angry, I would say. I know he wasn't the guy, the person I had known before. [Pauses] Can't really, I can't really give that one.

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