14-12-4
Manzanar R.C.
Manzanar, Calif.
April 2, 1945
Dear Joe,
Thank you very much for your letter. Right now you won't get the letters I have written because I'm out of stamps & I have been too busy to get the stamps.
Jimmy Ito sure was a happy guy today! No wonder! He's a now a proud father of a baby boy born today!
Gosh, it's sure good to know that this is going to be the last year in camp. Boy it's a good thing! Boy the people are [illegible], too! They notice every thing about you. Gossip is all that is being talked about. If I would be in camp another year, I'd go crazy! People are too darn narrow minded!
All of my pals are gradually relocating and I don't have anybody to go to anywhere with. The express office is pretty well filled with things which people are sending out before they do
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relocate again. Kids are gradually checking out of school. Gee, its going to be a happy day when it's the time for me to pack.
Just next month and school will be out. I know the months will fly by and we'll soon go home.
Oh yes! We're having another annual this year but it is moreless what you would call a pamphlet. Ordered you one so we'll be sure you get one. It's 75 cents!
Gee, I guess I have really been looking forward to going to Los Angeles because I have been home in Los Angeles about ten times in my dreams. Gee, Mom would tell me that I'd be yelling in my dreams & laughing and what nots! Yes, you probably would hear me
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too, the way I talk in my sleep. I bet you can already imagine this, huh!
I can hardly wait till we do get home. If the Affoulters don't cause us any trouble with our house and say that they can't find a place to live, I'm sure we'll be heading home in July. Gee, if you get your furlough in August as you think, I'm sure you would come home to W.L.A., a real home, where we could play the piano together and try to cook & wash dishes together & even sleep together! Boy I sure do miss you and Tor. I think that you were the ones who really made me happy. Especially the fights!
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Gosh, it would be swell if Joe could come home at the same time you do. Then we'd reunite together as a whole family like the times before you relocated from the Manzanar dump!
Easter was lousy! Man, it blew so you could hardly see the next barrack. It blew all afternoon. It's a good thing I didn't have any new Easter clothes! I didn't go to the Sun Rise Service for the first time since I came to Manzanar. I just slept and went to the young peoples service. I quit going to Sunday School. Gee, that dust was an inch thick all over the room clear up to the partition & boy that's really dirty! Well so long, & I hope you'll write again!
Mas