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MN: You worked in Florida for one year, went back to Maryland and went to a typing school?

HM: I gave up on [inaudible] and went to a high school there. I went to high school, and that was a religious school, but the U.S. government approved to cover tuition. I went to school. High school. Then I received a letter about a mechanic for typewriters. It said it would pay well. In the letter, around 300 dollars or so, it said it was a good job. Quit your school and come to the typewriter school. I went there and was told that I would have problems with English. They asked me questions and found out that I couldn't speak English. [inaudible] told me that it would be a waste of money. I was told I would lose money. I didn't get accepted. After that, I received another letter from Washington, D.C. They told me to go over there because I was accepted into this typewriter school. They told me I could make 300 dollars or so. I went there and spent about two month there. Then, they told me I should quit because I could not speak English. I quit. I went back to the Academy again. I tried to go back to the Academy, but it was too late. It was in the middle of the term at school. I was told I could not be enrolled. I couldn't. Then I left the dorm of the Academy and stayed at someone's house. I went to a business school in Washington, D.C.

MN: Was that when you found out where Tsutomu and Takeshi were staying?

HM: Right. Back then, I was in Washington D.C., and Tsutomu and Takeshi were -- I had a Caucasian friend, a friend from the Academy, and this friend, the Caucasian friend was corresponding with somebody in Hiratsuka, Hiratsuka in Kanagawa Prefecture. He was a student in Hiratsuka. In Kanagawa Prefecture. My Caucasian friend was writing to him, to Japan. I wrote to the person in Hiratsuka too and told him that my sister was there in Kanagawa Prefecture. [inaudible] I was writing back and forth with the one in Hiratsuka. Then I found out Takeshi and Tsutomu were in San Francisco. I had no idea. Takeshi and Tsutomu had left for New York. They left New York and came back to San Francisco. I didn't know where they were at all. The student in Hiratsuka wrote to me and told me Takeshi and Tsutomu were in San Francisco. That's how I found out. I left Washington and went back to San Francisco. Back to be with Takeshi. That's why I ended up living in San Francisco.

MN: You were back in San Francisco to start anew...

HM: Back in San Francisco.

MN: Just like before...

HM: I went back and worked as a dish washer. And then, I went to Greyhound Bus. I started to work for Greyhound Bus. I quit Greyhound Bus and started to pick grapes. Picking grapes. It hurt my back. Grape picking. In the fall. It ended in November. After that, I quit grape picking and went to Japan. I got my passport and went to Japan. I got married in Japan. I married Toshiko Furuya. Toshiko was my sister Miyako's classmate. When I was staying at home in Japan, the classmate, Toshiko Furuya, came to visit now and then. Miyako had a son named Sueta, [inaudible] she came to visit. We met each other and got married.

MN: But it didn't work out, and you remarried your current wife, right?

HM: Yes. Toshiko Furuya came to visit once in a while, and I remember her father was a school principal. Elementary School, Sakurai. [inaudible] The father was a principal and had the fifth wife. The first wife is the mother of Toshiko Furuya, and she died early. He remarried twice, and later he had the fifth wife. He got divorced too. [inaudible] Fifth wife. People in the neighborhood were saying he was such a womanizer.

MN: Do you have any other stories you would like to share about the camp and the war?

HM: What? What about the camp?

MN: Any other stories about the camp and the war? I asked all the questions I wanted to ask.

HM: About the camp and the war... maybe Hoshidan. No not really.

MN: No more? That's all then. Thank you very much.

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