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KP: And what about your family? You mentioned that they...

TT: Oh, after the camp closed, they got their twenty-five dollars and they say, "You can go wherever you want." Anyway, they were in Utah, they ended up in Provo, Utah. I got a letter from my sister, I still remember, Provo, Utah, they were working on the farm. And like I said, the good friend we made in Topaz, they had their own place in San Lorenzo. They called my dad, they found a place for them to come back, too, and that's how they came back to California. So although it was converted horse barn, but better than nothing. So when I came back, they were over there. But that's all I know, they were struggling. See, so I had, I just had a high school education, under the GI, I wanted to go to college. But I had to help the family out. So I went to the trade school under the GI Bill. And soon as I got over, in about six months to a year, I got a job and helped the family out. That's typical, you know, we all did that.

KP: So you lived in San Lorenzo at that time?

TT: Yeah, lived in San Lorenzo. Then about a year later, I moved 'em up to Sacramento here. We found a place over in Sacramento, found a job, a farm and all that, moved them to Sacramento.

KP: And your dad continued farming?

TT: Yeah. See, my mother died in 1935.

KP: And the rest of your family, your older brother, sisters?

TT: Yeah, I got one older brother, older sister.

KP: What did they do after the war? Did they stay with the family for a while?

TT: Oh, yeah. We all went moved together. See, my older brother worked as a gardener in San Mateo. Because don't forget, they have fairly upper class neighborhood, and you had a lot of these Japanese gardeners, and they didn't have no gardeners during the war. So my dad was, they were in demand over there, San Mateo. He got a good job over there. But we survived, like I say.

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