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KP: So what, what kind of, what kind of recreation did you do after the war when you were in Seabrook? Did you get a chance to go out to any movies? Did you...

YM: Oh yeah, we went to movies and we played mahjong a lot. We played a Japanese card game. And we had fun.

KP: Were there any kind of, like, picnics that people got together for or, I mean, are you celebrating still New Year's?

YM: Oh, yeah.

KP: Stuff like that? With the Japanese people there?

YM: Uh-huh.

KP: Did you primarily hang out with the Japanese people or did you expand your circle of friends there?

YM: Well, I think primarily Japanese people. But I got to be a real good friend with my neighbor. She's, she's from West Virginia. And we'd been neighbors. We're still talking to each other. Anytime I go back to New Jersey I still visit her and I call her on the phone sometime. We, and we found out we have birthdays on the same day. So, so I've been friends with Darla for a long time.

KP: I've got a question. After your uncle died, what, what did your aunt do?

YM: She lived with us.

KP: Did she?

YM: And then she, yeah, she left camp before we did. And she went to work in an American home. And then she went to live with her brother, and then she passed away. She passed away pretty early. I went in, in 1948, we came out to California and we went to visit my aunt and she was supposed to come to live with me. Then her brother talked her out of it. And so I didn't get to see her anymore. Then she passed away about two years later or something like that, so...

KP: And your, your parents, they left the camp and came back to California?

YM: Uh-huh.

KP: And where did they settle?

YM: They were in, where is it first?

Off camera voice: We were in San Fernando.

YM: San Fernando.

KP: Okay.

Off camera voice: Then we came here.

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