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DG: Okay, I guess, if I can hear, I'd like to hear a little more about things, everyday things that went on in camp. I understand that that two of your siblings got married while you, during the war. Can you tell about their weddings and their marriages?

MW: Oh, well we, we didn't get to see anything like that. Because when Massie, when Massie got married, it was shortly after a riot that they had there, and so you weren't able to bring groups together for any kind of occasion. So, we didn't see anything at all. We weren't able to go to... and so they just got married in front of the priest and, and I suppose his wife was probably a witness. But that's all that we knew about.

DG: And your brother, did he leave camp?

MW: Well, yes, he, my brother, my brother officially got married in Chicago, and he, he was out there. And my sister Massie went out, and Kiyo went out, and Sue went out. And Sue went to Evanston. And she was working as a domestic in Evanston. And then when she left and went to Chicago, they called me out so I could finish high school in Evanston, Illinois. So I went to Evanston township high school. And I felt like a little pea in a, in a great big barrel because it was a high school with four thousand students. And, and so being there and not knowing anybody, like I didn't think I knew anybody, I was very, very afraid, and I was two weeks late anyway getting there. And so I was behind schools getting there, and then getting there and finding out that it was one of the high, high academic schools in the nation. I think that scared me more. But, but luckily I was, I was down getting my locker and my oldest sister, Massie, was with me 'cause she's the one that took care of me, and there was one person walking down the hall. And I looked at him and I went, "Oh, my gosh," and I knew him from camp. And I think that's what helped me a lot. Because I, I knew that I at least knew one person in the whole school. And, but it didn't take long to get to know others, especially you get to know people in just study hall. Which study hall, you have about a hundred, hundred students in there because it's great big room. But, and the people around you were very friendly, so it worked out fine.

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