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MN: Before your father died, you mentioned earlier also, but the University of Redlands professors, Professor Nichols and his wife Grace came, and can you share with us again why they made this trip?

RW: Well, they were very close to us for years, to the family and to all the kids, and so I guess they just wanted to come and see us and visit us. They brought some furniture with them for us. They brought our dog. I know Wimpy Hiroto in his column in the Rafu said we weren't allowed to have dogs in camp, but I wrote him a letter and said we had a dog. Never bothered anybody, followed my mother everywhere she went. People would say, "We know where your mother is all the time because the dog is there waiting for her." It was amazing, the dog would follow her to the shower, wait outside for her, go to the mess hall with her, when she went in the mess hall, he'd run around to the exit and sit there and wait for her, and followed her to go to the hospital every day and he would wait at the foot of the stairs of the little short steps, just lay there. And nobody ever complained. Nobody even worried about him. He was just a resident of the camp. It was amazing. So, he was really devoted to her.

MN: What kind of dog was he?

RW: He was part chow. He had a curled tail and looked like, I don't know if you know what a chow looks, but it's brownish and not a big dog, but middle size.

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