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TI: Well, you mentioned the newspaper guy from San Francisco who was kind and gave you vitamins. Did you ever have discussions with him? 'Cause I'm curious 'cause he's a journalist and so the press is always important in terms of reporting what's going on, so he's probably always thinking and observing.

FS: No, he never, he never said anything, but he just knew that I was a Nisei and then he knew that I, my mother used to come to see me every day, from the other fence. There's a long fence on the road. There's a fence on the other side. My mother used to come and see me every day, my mom. So I used to always tell her, "Go home."

TI: So every day at a, at a certain time your mother would be there?

FS: Yeah.

TI: And then you would, you would be there and, and...

FS: Somebody would tell me, "Hey, your mother's out there. Go see her." So that's, that's about all.

TI: Was that, was that common for other people to have a relative or somebody do the same thing?

FS: No, and I never saw nobody else besides my mother. Nobody else came.

TI: And what did, how did that make you feel, or what did that mean to you, that your mother would come every day?

FS: I would say she was always worryin' about me, so I do want to get out, but I can't do it, so...

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