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JN: Okay. After the war, what did your family do?

YO: They came back to farm.

JN: And do you remember what it was like? Were you nervous about coming back?

YO: No. No, I came back in May, just for a visit, and they all welcomed us back, so I didn't have no hard feeling.

JN: What, and you kind of mentioned this, the condition of your farm and your house, how, how was that?

YO: They were fine.

JN: Everything?

YO: Everything was fine.

JN: And the same family that took care of it, they just said welcome back and they let you back into your house?

YO: Uh-huh.

JN: You're lucky.

YO: It was sad, though, the husband had passed on and she was doing it all by herself. She, 'course, we helped her move, but I was sorry to see her go.

JN: Did she have a hard time keeping it up?

YO: Well, she said it was hard because the people would come from the ferry and try to tell 'em that they're not coming back and try to get some furniture and things.

JN: What happened to, maybe this is later, what happened to your family's greenhouse? The greenhouse, tell me a little bit about that. Does, was that just when you were really young?

YO: Yeah. It's a long time ago, I think when both of my brothers were born, and that was in 1922, '21 and two, I think. Well, that was when we were quite young, so a fun time. [Laughs]

JN: And that's when you had the greenhouse?

YO: Uh-huh.

JN: Did your parents sell it then, before they moved to Winslow to have the strawberry farm?

YO: I don't know if they did or not, because it, maybe the, someone must've taken it over.

JN: But not your family. It was...

YO: No, no, he gave it up.

JN: How do you feel your life changed because you went through this experience of going to camp and not being able to do some of the things that you might've, might've been able to do before camp? Do you feel, how do you feel your life could have been or did, if it changed at all?

YO: I don't feel nothing.

JN: You don't worry about it.

YO: No, just forgot about it or out of my mind, actually. [Laughs]

JN: You just must be easygoing. Whatever happens, you adjust.

YO: I don't know.

JN: Besides the fact that your neighbors were really good to you and saved your home and your farm, how did other non Japanese people in the community treat your family and you as you were in those postwar days? Did you ever feel that people were suspicious of you or didn't like you because you were Japanese?

YO: We, I never felt that way.

JN: Do you feel that you, when you raise your own children, that having gone to camp and in the war situation and all, what happened has made a difference in how you raised your children or how you live your life?

YO: I don't think so. Nothing has changed.

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