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TI: Let's go to Jerome now. So your husband leaves early, so he's already at Jerome. When you and Janie get to Jerome, what's Jerome like for you? What are your first impressions of Jerome?

RN: Well, sort of lonely. Just the two of us.

KN: And then what about, like, being in Arkansas? It's such a foreign state from Fresno.

RN: I didn't feel anything.

TI: Was it good to see your husband again after all those weeks?

RN: Yeah.

TI: I'm curious, because of his advance work, was he able to get a nice apartment for you and Janie and him because he was there early?

RN: Yeah.

TI: So tell me about that. Which block and tell me the apartment?

RN: He was working International Harvester, he was working there, at International Harvester. And then they...

KN: That's after camp, though, Mom.

RN: Yeah.

KN: They went to Chicago.

TI: How about in camp? Did... tell me about your living quarters in camp.

KN: Do you remember your block number and where you lived?

RN: In camp, it was the same, you know. Then we went to Chicago and lived out of the camp.

KN: What was the block number, Mom, do you remember?

RN: I don't remember.

KN: You told me Block 41.

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