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RP: One other question about your education at Manzanar was the fact that you graduated in the class of 1945. What do you remember most about your graduation ceremonies and... you couldn't leave the camp to have a prom so, did you, did you...

MN: Well, we had a prom in --

RP: In camp?

MN: -- we had a prom in, in the auditorium, right. And...

RP: What do you remember most about that?

MN: Gosh, not much, except that I got to go with this guy that I liked. [Laughs] Oh...

RP: Do you want to reveal names?

MN: No.

RP: No. Okay. I thought I'd try anyway.

MN: Oh, but...

RP: So you had, you had dancing. Who provided the music for that?

MN: I don't remember. Records maybe. I don't know.

RP: Or the Jive Bombers?

MN: Yeah, I don't know. One of the... the girl that played the piano was in our class, Kiyo, Kiyo Nishi. And, then I guess you know about Bruce and the others. But...

RP: A lot of these camp experiences not only involve your parents and the Nisei generation that you're a part of, but also the Sanseis and the Yonseis and then one of your nieces took a, took a strong interest in your father's stories and experiences.

MN: Uh-huh.

RP: Can you tell us a little bit about that?

MN: Well, she's a poet. So she's written a couple of books on poetry. But I don't know if... she was doing some research on her grandfathers. And I guess, I guess she knew more about her other grandfather because her mother, on her mother's side, she had more information. And I guess she wasn't too, she didn't, she didn't talk to her dad too much about Grandpa. And so then she'd ask me stuff. And then a lot of times... I'd give her give her whatever I could, but...

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