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FK: Tell me a little about your time in Manzanar.

SK: My time in Manzanar? I had... of course, you were one of my neighbors. And so it was nice just being able to just go out the door and be with all my neighborhood kids. We used to play together. I was very, I was very unhappy over the fact that all my friends left, but I made some very, very good California friends. And to this day, I still have one friend who I communicate quite often with, and that's nice. Of course, we've, we've been able to keep in touch about the marriages, her marriage, our marriage, and the variety of things that go on in one's life. And so I just saw her about a year ago, and that was nice to get back together again. But I really haven't... my sister, my sister Mats kept in touch with most of the, most of her friends, 'cause she was older, she was, she was in her teen years at the time she was in camp. But it was, I think it was hard on the family in camp, but because you're there, you do what you have to do, and I was, I had... I didn't realize that everybody was going through all this trauma and I was the only one that said, "Oh, great, this is fun." But then my family was very good, they made sure that I had, they kept a lot of the problems away from me.

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