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Title: Fumiko M. Noji Interview
Narrator: Fumiko M. Noji
Interviewer: Dee Goto
Location: Bellevue, Washington
Date: April 22, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-nfumiko-01-0036

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DG: What did you think about the area, desert dry area like Emmett when you went there.

FN: Well Emmett was, is a very nice town. It's a little small community but it was very nice. Emmett and Nampa too. They're, they're nice, they're nice areas. So it wasn't bad at all, really.

DG: So you didn't feel like you were out in the desert or anything.

FN: No it didn't feel like we were way far away from things. But... then, then when we, after we moved to Spokane, my husband found a job in a greenhouse. And so he worked there for awhile, awhile. While I, well I went to work for a hospital. I don't even recall the name of the hospital. So we got, some way or another we got along even though...

DG: So you stayed in Spokane a year or two?

FN: We stayed there, well must be over a year, two, two years. I don't even recall when I came back, when we came back to Seattle. But I know I worked in the greenhouse too and I quit the hospital job and I went to work in the greenhouse. So...

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