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BN: And then, because you said in '45, was it August of '45 that the family moved back?

RM: I went back in September of '45, yeah.

BN: Was there a precipitating event?

RM: No. The war had ended and so we can either go back... and so my father went back, I don't know if it was one or two weeks before, set everything up for us. And so we went back with, I can't remember who we went back with. We went back with somebody else that took us, helped us.

BN: And then you were able to move into your old house?

RM: Yeah. Instead of the first floor, we took the third floor. So the first floor, we hasd my mother's sister, Kiyo Matsuki, her and her husband Peter, and (his brothers were) in the service, but Peter was not in the service. The two brothers were in the service and one of the brothers, I think their family moved in with Peter and them. Then in the second floor, my father's youngest brother's in-laws, brother-in-law and their inlaw, the wife's sister, that's the Furushos and the Sekos, they moved in the second floor. They were single couples, not single, they were couples, no children, they were two couples with no children. They eventually had boys, two boys, one each, there at that time. And then we lived up on the third floor, and my youngest uncle William stayed with me, stayed in the same bed with me. My brother had the closet. [Laughs] It was a big closet, I guess it's a utility closet for brooms and things, but a bed fit in there, so he was able to get his own room.

BN: Housing was at a premium.

RM: And then we rented out two rooms in the front.

BN: Two, not...

RM: Two separate rooms we rented out.

BN: Not to other family members.

RM: Other families.

BN: Oh, to other people.

RM: Not related. But people needed a place to stay.

BN: So you had a lot of people in that house.

RM: Yeah.

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