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MA: How did you feel about the redress, the government apology and the reparations payments for the internment?

IO: Well, I just thought, well... I was surprised that we ever got it. That was one of the things, I never expected to get it. I thought it was something that was impossible that we'd ever get something like that. And when they passed it, I just said, "Well, we'll take it." [Laughs]

MA: Was your mother alive at that point?

IO: Yes. Yeah, 'cause my mother passed away, it was 1996 or so. She lived to be ninety-six years old. 'Course, the last few years, she was in a nursing home. But they were good to her in the nursing home, considering that she couldn't communicate.

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