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IT: But that's how they were, too. I don't know how they found out, like my aunt, found out to move to Seattle. It could've just been a suspicion. I don't know.

KL: Yeah, there were a lot of rumors. I mean, I do know other people who, and people, aliens were asked to register. I mean, there were a lot of signs that something was gonna happen.

IT: That thing was terrible.

KL: Do you remember that?

IT: I remembered that no-no thing.

KL: Later, yeah.

IT: Yeah.

KL: This was even before, though, in early 1942. People were told to go and register if they were Japanese citizens. Or maybe it happened with Italian and German citizens, too. I don't know a lot about that history.

IT: No, I don't know.

KL: But there were, there were a lot of signs that something, that some things were gonna happen.

IT: What I don't understand is, I thought first that they must've taken my mother's citizenship away, but, because she went to the Edison High School...

KL: You know, there was a law -- I forgot about that -- if U.S. citizens, if women, female U.S. citizens married a Japanese national, many did lose their citizenship.

IT: Okay. Do you know what year that was?

KL: I don't know.

IT: Okay. I wondered about that.

KL: But it probably would have affected your mother. I forget about that sometimes.

IT: Yeah. And because she studied history, or constitution or whatever, and she's so busy, and I thought, "Why is she doing that?"

KL: So she later was seeking U.S. citizenship?

IT: Well, I don't, I don't remember she going anywhere. I think they passed a law saying she was already, I mean giving it back, if they took it away. I'm not sure. But, I never did look into that, but I was told that they...

KL: Yeah, I forgot about that.

IT: My dad did go to school, and he got naturalized. But my mom died in '49, so...

KL: Yeah, that was before.

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