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BK: So was there a major discussion with your parents as far as where to go after camp closed? I know you selected Denver.

JT: Uh-huh. Well, no, because I think since the other family was there, that the other family was from Petersburg also and were very close to us. And she was the one that always taught me what little Japanese I knew. But they were there so then my folks decided to go down, too. But then I don't know why they decided, but they left Denver, both of the families, and decided to go on back to Petersburg.

BK: But prior to that, then you had decided to leave Denver you had said.

JT: Uh-huh, uh-huh, because Mits was coming back and Mits then landed in New York, as I say, and spent couple days here and couple days there, and then he came down to visit me. And then he went on ahead to Seattle. So at that time, I decided okay, well then it's time for me to leave also. And that must have been about April, again of '45. May, May? '46?

BK: 1946?

JT: '46? Oh yeah, it was '46, yeah right. Gosh, how time flies. Yeah, it was 1946.

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