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DH: Then so you were engaged at Manzanar and then you got married while you were at Minidoka.

KN: Uh-huh, because we moved after eleven months.

DH: Right. So describe the wedding.

KN: Oh, it was a big wedding. [Laughs] By that I mean we had a permit to go out for one day.

IN: To Twin Falls.

KN: To Twin Falls, yes. We took the bus from, by the administration building, and Sam's sister and sister-in-law went with us as witness. And we look for a Justice of the Peace and he was out to lunch. So we look for a minister and found a Presbyterian minister and so he married us, and his wife was a witness, too. And then after the short ceremony we went for dinner, big deal, chicken dinner. You know, after eating mish-mash and everything else in camp that was a great treat. When you say chicken dinner now, it's so common, but then it was a big treat. And so we stayed one night and then came back and that was it.

DH: And that was it.

KN: That was it because during the war you couldn't get anything, everything was just so scarce. In fact, all cotton things were very scarce, and when our son was born, we couldn't even buy diapers hardly because in those days they used flannel diapers and everything. Now they have throwaways.

DH: Did you get a wedding ring? Did you dress up for the occasion?

KN: No, I didn't have a wedding dress or anything. I just wore the best clothes, dress that I had, which a dressmaker made for me while I was in Manzanar. She was a wonderful dressmaker. She was busy making dresses for lots of people, and so I had one made, but it was tailor made. It was not a fancy dress.

DH: Where did she get the fabric?

KN: Well, Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward was our Bible almost. Everybody shops Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward. And then at the canteen, sometimes some materials came in.

DH: So she could make you a nice dress to wear for your wedding, or was it just a dress that you had made?

KN: I just had the dress made so I just wore it for a wedding.

DH: Did you get a wedding ring?

KN: Uh-huh. Yeah. That, we could get, but some of the other things we were not able to get. And, of course, we got about a couple of wedding gifts because people just couldn't buy anything.

DH: Uh-huh.

KN: Which was okay.

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