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LH: So then your family, your mom and your four... the four of you children, ended up in Camp Harmony?

MN: Yeah.

LH: I see. Any recollection of Camp Harmony?

MN: I'm not so sure if it was Camp Harmony or if it was Minidoka, but I remember mud. Mud so bad that I had to hunch over and pull up my boots and put it down and then pull up the other boot and put it down. I was hunched over walking like a frog and, 'cause... one day I was not going to make it to the outhouse, which I was headed for, and somebody picked me up from the back, right out of my boots and I said, "Oh, my boots," and they put me back down and let me grab my boots again. So I grabbed both of them, walked me over to the boardwalk, and put me down. I was so grateful. [Laughs] I says, "Oh, thank you," and by the time I turn around to say thank you, this male was gone. And I remember feeling so badly that I didn't get to thank him, and I was so appreciative of that, but I remember that was the mud. That's the only thing that I remember. I think the rest of it, I remember the cold. I never saw icicles as thick and I never remember seeing icicles, the first time I saw icicles. I remember the cold and I do remember dusty. The cold was so bad they said, "Don't put your hands on metal because it'll stick," and I thought it will stick forever, and I'll be stuck to the metal for the rest of my life.

LH: Was this at Minidoka?

MN: I think that's Minidoka. The cold, really cold was Minidoka.

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