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TI: And for the farm, did the two of you have -- it sounds like, Eiko, you had to really help with the children. Did you do, either of you have to do farm chores? Did you have to go out there and sometimes do farm chores to help out?

YN: I remember going to hoe. We helped thin, that was hard work. But we were little, so we didn't do, we mostly played more than we worked, I think. [Laughs]

TI: And about how old were you when you had to go out there, and when you say you played more, about how old were you?

EN: That was before... when we came back from the camp, they didn't allow...

YN: Was it after camp, or before?

EN: Yeah. After camp, I remember helping my father stamp the, all the crates and everything. Because they wouldn't, he couldn't raise lettuce because they didn't, they won't buy from Japanese people. So they wanted just vegetables that you put it in a crate and ship it to L.A. I think it was, the company was, Mafei is the most, the best one that they would bring a truck over to Watsonville from Los Angeles.

TI: And then your dad would sell to him, and then he would bring it up to Los Angeles?

EN: Yes.

TI: Because people around here locally wouldn't buy.

EN: Yes.

TI: And that was because of anti-Japanese kind of feelings?

EN: Yes. And then the truck, when they first came, he couldn't find us. My father should have told him it was a historian house, but he didn't, and then they couldn't find the address because they were from L.A. And he said he went down Beach Road, and nobody told him where our house was. They knew, but they wouldn't tell because of that. So he said he had a hard time coming to our house. Finally made it.

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