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TI: Going back to your mother, who died at Jerome, how did she die? What was the cause of her death?

RN: Heart attack.

KN: I thought she had cancer.

RN: Oh, yeah.

KN: That's why you visited her at the hospital in Little Rock, right?

TI: And when she first started getting sick, do you know what the health care was like at Jerome, how good it was?

RN: No.

TI: But then they then sent her to Little Rock.

RN: Yeah.

TI: And how was her care at Little Rock?

RN: At Little Rock it was all right, 'cause I went to see her. It was okay. When she died, it just said, "Jap woman."

KN: How was it you got to go get your hair done when you would go visit Baachan in the hospital?

RN: I don't know.

KN: But you had, remember you told me they treated you really nice?

RN: Uh-huh.

KN: Southern hospitality?

RN: Yeah.

TI: I'm thinking about your life, and so when you were young, your mother, your first mother died, and then now your adopted mother died. How was it for you? It must have been, I'm thinking, a difficult time for you to have, to see your mother die at this time?

KN: Yeah, 'cause now you don't have any more Mom.

RN: Yeah.

KN: How did you feel, Ma?

RN: I don't know.

KN: What kept you going? What made you...

RN: Well, the family.

TI: Yeah, because you had the family to... you mentioned that your husband was oftentimes bitter about things. What was he bitter about? Did he talk about what he was mad about or bitter about?

RN: He was bitter about putting us in the camp, I guess.

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