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MA: Going back a little bit to when you were working for the family in St. Paul, were your foster parents and your sisters and your father and brother, were they all still in camp?

MY: Yeah.

MA: So they were still in Tule Lake.

MY: Yeah, right.

MA: When did they start coming out of camp? Was it when it closed?

MY: I think it was when it closed. I brought my sister out here, so the foster family were just a couple Isseis, so they stayed there 'til it closed and then they went back to Medford. And I don't, I think my father did, too, but I don't know where he went after the camp closed. Because somehow he knew where I was, so he came down... I was surprised, he came down to my graduation in Texas. And so we got together that way. And then he and I came by bus up to Minneapolis after I graduated. And then we set up... he bought a house so that we could have some place to stay, and kind of planted our roots here.

MA: I see. So he eventually came out and settled in this area.

MY: In Minneapolis, right.

MA: And when did your sister come out again? She came out of camp to join you and...

MY: My younger sister came out about a year after I did because I found another family member that would take her in as a maid. And then my older sister was in Minidoka, and she, after I came out and she found out I was, we were out here, she applied to Mayo Clinic, or hospital, in Rochester, and went there to work as a nurse. And so the three, three of us were able to get together. And then my brother was working warehouse in Chicago, I guess, after. And so he came when we got the house, he came to live with us in Minneapolis, too. So slowly we kind of pieced our family together. [Laughs] What there was left of it.

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