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RP: Just going back into camp again, do you remember the day that your father came back from the internment camp?

TM: No. No, I don't remember.

RP: I think it was August 8, 1942.

TM: Oh, yeah?

RP: According to this document here. That's when he came back.

TM: Oh. So, so he spent from February. He went in February. See, that's when I know, I remember he went in February. And came back in August. I remember going to the bus stop there to...

RP: Oh, to see him when he came in?

TM: Yeah.

RP: Right, right in front of the camp there?

TM: Yeah.

RP: Did he seem like the same dad to you or...

TM: Yeah, yeah.

RP: And, and probably keeping with the Issei sort of male tradition, he didn't talk much about what happened to him.

TM: Yeah. Right.

RP: Did it, did you miss your father?

TM: Well... in a way. But I was old enough and I was able to manage. So I didn't miss him. I just missed him as a parent, that's about it, yeah.

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