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BK: So then, how long did you stay in Minneapolis?

JT: I think Pauline and I were figuring it must have been just about three to four months before they decided they were going to close camp. We didn't stay there very long. And my dad wanted me back, and Mits' mother was alone at the time, so Pauline had to go back, too, to move us all out. And so we both went back. I went through, let's see, I went through... when did I go to Denver, now? See, I have that confused...

BK: It was probably after...

JT: After that I got... that's right. I went back to camp and we were going to move, Pauline was going to move back to Seattle, and that's when our folks moved, myself and my mother and father were moved to Denver. My brother went back to, was in the service, so we didn't have to worry about him at that time. And Mits was still in the service also. So Mom and Dad and I went to Denver because friends of ours had moved down there so we decided that we would go there, too. And that was fine for a while. My dad worked for a cigar company, smoke shop I guess kind of the warehouse for them, and I had a job at the YWCA, secretary there again. But that was a job I really enjoyed and made friends with the staff there, it was very nice, it was a good job. And my mother, of course, was home and we stayed there for another six months, I guess.

And it was during that time when Mits returned from service, when we were in Denver, and he came by to see me in Denver then. He was in, he landed, of course, in New York, got off the ship. He was on the Queen Elizabeth, came back by Queen Elizabeth, and landed in New York and so when they left New York, he and his buddies, Slim and this fellow that is now doing the Nissan ads, they all came back via New York. And, but Mits parted company then and was going to see his sister. His sister, Yoshi, was in Chicago at the time so he went to Chicago, and this was on his way back to Seattle. He was in Chicago, I don't think he spent much more than a day or two in New York and a day or two in Chicago. And then he traveled on south and west to see me in Denver and he stayed just a few days. And then he went on home and I stayed there until... then my folks, in the meantime, had moved from Denver to go back to Alaska.

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