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RP: So you got back to Reno with the car but then you had to come back down to camp. You couldn't drive the car back to camp.

TM: No, I can't drive the car to camp.

RP: So what did you do with the car?

TM: So I left it at Zoriki's and he, one of the Zorikis was already out, see, I mean, relocated and that's Nevada so I guess that was legitimate. So I told him to sell the car if he has a chance. And I said, "I want $500 and if you sell it, then you keep a hundred." And he sold the car for me.

RP: And so you took the bus back down to camp?

TM: Oh, yeah, we had to take the bus back, with an escort.

RP: With an escort?

TM: Oh, yeah.

RP: Who was that? Do you remember? Was it just a Caucasian or was it a soldier or a...

TM: Oh, no. It was a Caucasian person. They escort, yeah, no, it was just another civilian person, I guess. Somebody that worked for the WRA or somethin'.

RP: WRA. So you got back to camp in time for the wedding?

TM: Uh-huh. Yeah, well, I think the wedding I didn't make, but the reception I made. Uh-huh, yeah.

KP: That's more important anyway.

RP: Yeah.

TM: Huh?

KP: That's more important anyway, the reception.

TM: Yeah, right, right. [Laughs]

RP: So, this is your older sister?

TM: Yeah, she's a year older than I am.

RP: Who did she marry?

TM: Huh?

RP: Who did she marry?

TM: She married a Terminal Island guy.

RP: She did?

TM: Yeah.

RP: What was his name?

TM: Terada. Well, his, his real name is Ryo, Ryoichi and, but he had a nickname, Duke. Everybody knows him by Duke.

RP: Was he a fisherman from, on Terminal Island?

TM: Yeah, yeah.

RP: So she, had she met him before camp?

TM: No, it wasn't one of those. Somebody fixed her up.

RP: Ah. So how was the reception?

TM: Huh?

RP: How was the wedding reception?

TM: How was it? I don't remember too much about that. It was at the mess hall, I guess. By the way, is the mess hall open?

RP: It's getting close.

TM: Oh.

RP: Yeah. Kirk worked on it quite a bit over the last five, six months. So it's... the building is, outside is entirely restored.

TM: Oh.

RP: Yeah. I don't know within maybe a year or so people will be able to go inside the mess hall.

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