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KL: What became of the area where you were farming in Half Moon Bay, and I believe you stored some things before going to Topaz? What happened to your life from before the war?

MS: It disappeared.

ST: Disappeared.

MS: Yeah, 'cause someone broke into the shed. I guess things were just kind of scattered around. But the only thing that really bothered our mother was the ashes from Kazuichi, because that was in there also. And it really bothered her that it was missing, because I don't know what they did with it. But when we bought plots up at Skylawn, up above the hill, it kind of looks down on Half Moon Bay, which is kind of nice. But the guy sold her two plots, and we didn't discover until we had our father's ashes put in, that all she needed was the one plot. So we had a plaque made for Kazuichi, and so we had that next to her plot, and that kind of soothed her to have something for him there. Because it really did bother her that those ashes were gone. And whoever did it probably didn't know what it was, because it wasn't marked or anything, it was just an urn. So they probably didn't know it was human ashes. It was a long journey for Mom and Pop, and they had a tough life.

KL: Yeah, they saw a lot in their lives.

MS: Overall, I think we all came out of it pretty well.

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