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TL: Ayame, what are you thinking about, being here with your daughter and your grandchildren?

AT: I'm glad that my daughter and grandchildren came. And I have been talking about this for long time, now and then. But I think they really -- after seeing the place -- maybe understand a little bit more what happened. So I'm glad they came out with me.

TL: Mayumi, how does this change your view of your mother and father?

MT: Well, I don't think it changes my view of my mother and father. But it might, might help a little bit my understanding of the situation that they, in which they met. I mean I still think they're the same people, or I still think about them in the same way. But I was going to say I think the situation is very strange. Because just to hear that there were 18,000 people in the middle of nowhere, really, it's almost like sort of a science fiction thing, where, like on the X-Files, these people come over a hill and then they see this great big scientific installation. Well, in this case, Tule Lake became one of the biggest cities in this whole area, out of nowhere, and that's the strangeness of it. So just to think that all these normal human beings, doing their normal human things, were doing that in the middle of nowhere in a completely contrived and artificial situation. It does place kind of a question on how their lives would have been had it not happened. It's a curious thing, really. And we'll never know what their lives would have been like. But it just gives us a better understanding of what their lives were like then.

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