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RP: Tell us a little bit about your life after camp. You said you went to work for your father's nursery, bookkeeping and did you eventually go to college or what?

MN: I went, I went to UCLA for three years, yeah.

RP: After camp?

MN: Yeah. And then either I got sick or my mother got sick. We both did, but I forget which order it was. And so then I didn't go back and then I started working in the office. And...

RP: How about your, you got married eventually?

MN: Yeah.

RP: Your husband, was he at Manzanar?

MN: No he's, he's from Hawaii.

RP: Oh, Hawaii.

MN: He's from Kauai, yeah. And...

RP: Is he here at the reunion?

MN: He's in the casino, not in the dinner. [Laughs] Yeah.

RP: That's where we all ought to be right now.

MN: Yeah, yeah.

RP: So he didn't experience camp. He grew up in Hawaii during the war?

MN: Right, right. But you know, I'm just finding out that there were camps in Hawaii. I never knew that. And, I know, I know a lot of people were sent from Hawaii to the, you know, to the mainland. But now they're saying there were camps. And they're naming places. Even on the island of Kauai where my husband's from. But...

RP: So you're still learning about this experience?

MN: Oh, yeah. All the time. I mean, I go on the, online, and even from your site, I find out stuff that I didn't know.

RP: And how many kids do you have?

MN: Oh, I don't have any, unfortunately, yeah. Unfortunately or fortunately, I don't know. [Laughs] In a way, in a way, I don't know.

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