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DH: And then you said you worked outside of camp. So you were in Minidoka for a short time and then you also went outside or left the camp to go to a ranch to farm. Is that right?

IN: Yes. When we -- the summer I went up to Idaho, I finally ended up in this big ranch and got to know these people real well. And when we moved back to Minidoka from Manzanar, after I went back to work at that ranch because I had known them very well. And, in fact, we are in touch with them even today. And there were, oh, about three of us that were working there mainly. And after we got married, we had a cabin to ourselves and that's...

DH: So it wasn't too bad. You being off camp and at the ranch you had a few more goods than you were allowed to have in camp.

KN: We had a ration book so we could get butter, meat, and then I was cooking for some of the guys that worked with him. So they came to eat their meals and then I got dollar a day for that, for three meals wasn't it? Breakfast, lunch and dinner. So it kept me busy, but going back to the diapers. I remembered the supervisor that I worked for in Manzanar at the hospital public health department, after we moved to Minidoka, she heard about the arrival, the new arrival. So she and the gals that I worked with got together, and I don't know where they got the flannel, but they made little nighties and buntings and diapers. And here came this great big care package and oh, was that a godsend. I'm telling you. It was just wonderful, great big package of all kinds of things for the new baby.

DH: You must have been the envy of every new mother.

KN: Oh, gosh. Actually flannel --

DH: Which was very hard to come by during the war.

KN: Oh, yes. Because they were using all that for the machinery and engines for the war effort so that was really great.

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