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TL: Do you remember when you learned about what had happened to other Japanese Americans who did have to relocate into the camps?

HN: Oh, you mean --

TL: Not from Spokane, but when you just, when you learned that for, like Seattle Japanese?

HN: Oh, that they were in camp?

TL: Yeah.

HN: No. Until we heard about Minidoka, and then they had, I guess they had movies and things. No, we never knew about the camp life that they had. But I guess people in Spokane, they kind of suffered, too, I heard, being Japanese.

TL: And what kinds of things happened?

HN: Oh, I guess they got called names and things. That's what my husband was saying.

TL: So in Spokane, even though before the war they might have been somewhat accepted after the war or during the war? There was some --

HN: I think there was friction.

TL: Yeah.

HN: But the true friends always stayed true, even during the war and after the war. Because most of my husband's friends, they were farmers. They lived around there and they're still his friends, so that's kind of nice.

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