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JN: Can you tell us maybe a little bit more about how the Nartes and the Filipino families helped your family out after your father left?

LK: They kept, they continued to... when I look back, that, too, I think is remarkable. That they, they did not... they continued to support my family and our parents. They could easily have said, well, that they're not gonna be supportive of the Japanese because of the, of the Pearl Harbor. But they... I mean, they too continued to go on as if things were the same. And Felix... my parents had Felix Narte look after the house. They lived in another separate building, but then they, my parents had them all move into this house and then keep the farm going as long as the, my parents were not here, and they did do that. And I think, I'm not sure, but I think Felix must have sent the money, whatever they made, to camp. And when we came back then they moved out and we moved back in. And so... anyway, if it weren't for them, we wouldn't have had a place to come home to maybe, or we wouldn't have had a farm left, I think. But they did, so they were, they were like family to my parents. In fact, Felix and my mother were like brother and sister, and they argued and fought like brothers and sisters. [Laughs]

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