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SY: When you resettled, what stories do you recall of others who were struggling to resettle?

YM: I know there was a lady, but that, I don't know who the lady was or anything. There was a restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, run by a Japanese. Oh, this is before the war. Is that okay?

SY: Sure.

YM: Is that okay? I'm sorry.

SY: Sure, before the war. Uh-huh, that's fine.

YM: This is right after the war started. I think her -- I don't know who the lady was, but her husband lost his job, and they lived in this one hotel room. And I don't know how many children they had, but, anyway, she had to go look for food. And she always came to this one place where this man had that restaurant and he was telling Henry he couldn't stand this so he always used to cook rice, cook the Chinese food, or Japanese food or whatever, and put it on top of the garbage. And this lady would look around and take it home and feed the family. Maybe that was one meal a day for her. So there must have been other cases like that where the husband was... it was sad because the husband was too old to find another job, and he couldn't have found a job anyway after the war started, and he couldn't speak English. And some, I think, just got sick and died. Some were really sad.

Yukiko M. Interview - Copyright © 1998 Densho. All Rights Reserved. - <End Segment 35>