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MA: So can you talk about the day that you left Watsonville and...

CY: The date we left Watsonville? (Narr. note: I can't remember the date, but we left by bus to Salinas Assembly Center.)

MA: Uh-huh, what that was like and what you were thinking at the time?

CY: (Narr. note: We just did what we were told we had to do.) Well, we were just able to bring a suitcase, so we packed what we thought -- we didn't know where we were going, we knew we were going assembly, but from there, we didn't know where we were going. So we just, just took what we had, what we could carry, and we had to leave the dog behind. The dog, we left it to a man that rented our place, one of the granny quarter. So he took care of the dog until later on we sent for the dog, and we got it in camp, and we brought him back again, yeah.

MA: So you were able to have your dog with you?

CY: It was a poodle, uh-huh, (about a year later).

MA: So can you talk about the, the journey to Salinas, and did you take a bus down to Salinas?

CY: (Yes, by bus. We all gathered at the Veterans Hall Building.)

MA: Did you take a bus, or how did you get down to...

CY: (I still can't remember how we got to the Veterans Hall Building. We must have gotten a ride there because we lived far away.)

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