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DG: Okay, let's talk about camp itself. What was your impression when you first got there? Minidoka, we're talking about.

MM: Oh, how close your neighbors were.

AM: Camp life?

MM: Yeah.

AM: Oh.

MM: It was an experience.

DG: Did you know where you were going?

MM: Puyallup.

DG: Or...

MM: But beyond that we didn't know.

AM: We didn't know.

MM: Beyond that we didn't know.

DG: You took the train?

MM: Yes.

DG: So what did you think when you got off?

MM: We're in the sagebrush out in the desert, that's all. Oh, my, I thought.

AM: Wind and the sand...

MM: ...dust storm. You didn't have that experience.

DG: Oh, I lived in that already. [Laughs] So, you were at camp, and then, so what did you do? How...

MM: What did we do to keep busy?

DG: Well, you start, you know, you got settled? How did you do that? Your...

AM: What did we settle?

MM: We got, we settled down and we...

AM: I went to teach school.

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