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MN: It was getting hard to leave because we had a friend that lived on the other, you know, we faced from east to west of the barracks, the entry, and so this man was from Bainbridge and they had a wonderful greenhouse right on the, as you left Lynwood Center. And so he knew how to make lawns and raise flowers, and pretty soon, we had a beautiful lawn between the two barracks, flowers blooming. Towards the end, it was, it was a lovely camp, compared to Minidoka. Then they sent us to Minidoka, and it was in February, and it was muddy, and oh... and everybody had to wear those clogs, you know, the shoes. It was so different from camp in Manzanar.

JN: What do you remember in Minidoka? Tell us about when did you go there and what was different?

MN: Oh, in Minidoka, I still helped with the nursery. And, but Minidoka we had the privilege of leaving, visiting outside the camp. So a lot of them left the camp and went to work outside. And we had Reverend Andrews that was a Seattle Japanese minister, from Japanese Baptist Church, and my parents were member of that. And I was, we were, our girls were all member of that church, so we had the privilege of going to, into Twin Falls to be with our Reverend, Reverend Emery Andrews was his name. And he would open his home, and we would get to go to his home, and then go out to eat sometimes, got to go shopping. And then the office at Minidoka would give us permission to go ride the bus and go see them and shop and then come home, and that was wonderful to be able to get out. Then I got to go, one year, I got to go to a Baptist retreat camp, and they needed girls to work on the table. And so we got to go, through Reverend Andrews, and we got to swim in the swimming pool, in between recreation and working on... we got to do lot of things, so we were very blessed that way. But it was wonderful that Reverend Andrews was there, so I don't know how many times we got to leave camp and go. And then we used to have church service, so did Manzanar camp, we used to have church services.

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