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EO: And where did you go?

HU: To Japan. Oh, where --

EO: When you got out of camp, where did you go?

HU: I went, I came -- my wife was in San Jose Buddhist church, temporary hostel. But I came over here, no place to rent or stay. No, no house to rent even down cellars, I don't know the people in here; I know the friend of mine living here all their life, they're living in a horse stall. So she asked me, "You want to clean the chicken stall and stay there?" and I said, "No." So, I had, before I left, I had arrangement to go into the railroad. So I went to the railroad and I worked for about twenty-nine days. Then [inaudible] is south of Pismo, about ten miles south, you know. And I work in the farm. I was afraid to go back to L.A. because I hear that my two boys become teenage and I hear that during the wartime men and wife started working and teenagers just, nobody to supervise, so they getting bad. I hear that. So I was afraid. So I went into farm. I worked for 75 cents an hour. [Laughs] I worked for about eighteen months. Then I find a sharecropper for strawberry in San Jose, so I went into sharecropper for about two and a half years. Then move into Sunnyvale, I bought the place. I couldn't buy it with my name because I renounced my citizenship. So a friend of mine, he said, "Use my name for a while." So I used his name for four years, and then he said, "Time to change now." Change. That time I changed, I got my citizenship back. They don't need anymore. [Laughs] You don't need nothing like that. You just register.

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