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TI: So let's talk about it. So you returned, so Amache, at '45, you returned to Walnut Grove. And when you got back, you talk about this Filipino...

WM: His wife, yeah. They said, "We don't want you guys here."

TI: And who was she? Was she in Walnut Grove?

WM: No, she wasn't, before, they didn't have no white woman there. Then the Filipino guy married the white...

[Interruption]

TI: Oh, so you knew the foreman, and he came and told her that... so he told her to go away, essentially.

WM: Yeah. After that it was okay.

TI: So when you came back to Walnut Grove, how many other Japanese families...

WM: (Sasaki family came back to Walnut Grove).

TI: So you were like the first family...

WM: Two, only two, the first one came in.

TI: So you were the first ones to come in.

WM: Yeah, my dad wanted back to everything.

TI: And so you had to deal with this one woman who said, "No Japs." The other ones who came after you, there weren't any problems. So you saw that initially.

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