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TL: How were your parents taking this experience? And what had they left behind in Tacoma, and what were some of their concerns?

YN: Well, as it turned out they lost everything. We had a little grocery store; and they leased it, and the agreement was that he would send money each month, because, you know, we didn't charge for all the inventory, we just left it as it is. And they didn't receive anything. There is nothing we can do about it. When we got back, the store was empty, there was nobody there, and so they lost everything. My folks could not recover from that. Actually my father was a janitor after that; my mother worked in the farm.

TL: Was she, like, helping to harvest crops, that kind of thing?

YN: Bunching onions and things like that. They never did recover.

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