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MA: And so at that point, in Salt Lake City, it was you and your parents and your younger brother and then your sister was born?

AH: Uh-huh.

MA: Okay, during that time.

AH: Yeah, and I've got, I've got pictures of that. And I remember, I don't know if it was while we were there, but the Yamamoto family, they had two children, Eleanor, who's four years older than I am, and then they had a son named Junior. And he contracted a deadly disease and it took his life. And I remember it was awful, everybody was traumatized by that. So Eleanor grew up by herself.

MA: What was the neighborhood that you lived in in Salt Lake City?

AH: It was, it was a nice neighborhood. I mean, it wasn't real fancy or, you know, big mansions, but it looked like it was a middle-income. It was, it didn't seem to be low-income area or anything like that. It was close to West High School, about a block where, actually, I eventually graduated from West High School. It was close to downtown, it was close to the state capitol. It was an, it was an okay area.

MA: Were there other Japanese American families that lived in that neighborhood?

AH: Yeah, there really was. There was, in fact, Grace Oshita's husband's family, they went to another camp, and they ended up buying a home a few blocks from us in Salt Lake City. And eventually, Grace and Ben Oshita got married. But they were not too far from us. Oh, yeah, you know, and there were some other families, too... let me think. But then they came after, though, they came after.

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