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EG: Okay. I got lost in that mire and worked my way out again. Okay. Now, let's work your way out of Tule Lake. Now, how did things come about and getting out and moving on. How were those arrangements made?

PT: My father decided that he should return to Seattle to look for housing for the family before we all moved out. So he was able to get a ride from a very close family friend. They owned a car, and so he took a ride with them to Seattle. And he was going to look for housing, however, he became very ill and so he had to return to camp. And when he returned to camp, he found out that my mother and I (were) also very ill. I think there must have been some kind of virus going around at that time. He missed his opportunity to look for adequate housing. But a couple of months later we did have to move out. And this friend that he had returned to Seattle with initially, he was able to find housing for us at the Japanese Language School, because this family that we moved in with happened to be his in-laws. That's how it all came about.

EG: Yeah. That would be a hard time, wouldn't it? Having no resources, no property, nothing left over --

PT: Exactly.

EG: -- from before the war and to drop into the city and say now, start over.

PT: Right, right. I think my father was given only $14 at the time, to leave camp. And so I remember boarding a bus, and we got to this bus terminal -- I think it was on Second Avenue somewhere -- and so from there my parents and I carried our suitcase and walked up Jackson Street to the Japanese Language School. And we met the Kinoshita family for the very first time. But they were very, very gracious people and welcomed us.

EG: So you were sharing space with another family again, just like you had started out in camp.

PT: Yes, exactly.

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