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MN: Now your mother, you said she got sick in 1930.

MY: Yeah, she had TB.

MN: And so what happened to your mother?

MY: She passed away in early 1933, I guess.

MN: But she was hospitalized first.

MY: Yeah, she was hospitalized... she was in General Hospital, she went to... we went to Sunland, there was a place in Sunland, she stayed and she passed away there.

MN: So while your mother was in Sunland and your father go laid off and then you came back one day and the doors in your house were padlocked, how did you feel?

MY: Not very good. Really feel lost, but fortunately the family across the street, they had a couple of boys that was near our age and they took us in for a few days.

MN: Was this a Japanese American family?

MY: Yeah, Japanese family.

MN: And how long were you with this family?

MY: I think we were there about a week or something like that.

MN: Now during this time did you have any contact with your father?

MY: I don't remember. I don't know where he was.

MN: And so eventually Mrs. Oda came?

MY: Yeah.

MN: And she took you in?

MY: She took us in so we were there for about a month or so.

MN: Now she had children of her own also.

MY: She had three, a boy and two girls.

MN: Now how did the other children treat you?

MY: Oh, I remember they were real, real nice to us.

MN: So how did you get to Mrs. Oda's house?

MY: I don't know. I think they came after us.

MN: So at this point were you still going to school or did you stop going to school?

MY: No, we were going to school and I don't remember what school we were going to, but we used to go to Ninth Street School in L.A.

MN: Now when you were with Mrs. Oda's place, did you see your father at all?

MY: I don't remember. I don't think I saw him. I don't know where he went. In fact, I don't know how we got to Shonien, I think... I don't know who took us, I don't remember. But when we got there, I was really happy because you have a roof over your head and it was a clean place. There was about forty other kids there.

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