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RP: Tell us about your friend over here, Tammy. When did you first meet her?

AS: Oh, I knew her from high school. I moved here when I was tenth grade, so she, but she's an old time Venice... her family were farming.

RP: And she worked in...

AS: Camp, oh yeah.

RP: 'Cause... she worked in camp. What did she do?

AS: She worked in a dietician. She did all, my daughter was a bottle baby anyway, but they did all the food and they made extra things for them. She was saying that the doctors told them. The babies really got fed well, I'm telling you. So she knew all the... she used to go out to fish, too. All these people. They were in 18 Block, too. She had two children already. The kids, her kids used to come and liked to. But so far, camp life... I guess lot of the farmer women, they kind of like camp life. They didn't have to go out in the field every day and, you know. But they took sewing or whatever, and the kids were kept -- one thing I could say, the camp was a real clean place. And the bathrooms were not so clean, but then they put partitions and they made it like we're not being in a place where all the toilets are without partitions and all. Then right away the Japanese farmers, I mean carpenters, put partitions in it, but I'll say it was clean. 'Cause right away the block leader -- we had block organized -- and the block, too, well you didn't see a paper on the ground, on that dirt floor. I'll tell you one thing, everything was very clean.

RP: Who was your block leader? Do you remember?

AS: I don't know who was our block leader. Tommy, who was our block leader? Our, 18 Block? I don't know who was our block leader.

Off Camera voice: Kume.

AS: Huh?

Off Camera voice: Kume.

AS: I don't know. I don't know who he was. But anyway, everything was...

RP: Clean.

AS: ...organized. Every block was clean, and I'll tell you, everything was clean. You know, you'd go, you'd wander places around, that's one thing that impressed me. All, everything clean, and they organize everything nice and they put the lawn between every other block, and so we didn't... isn't that something, though?

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