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RP: There was something else you mentioned you also did in camp is that you used to distribute some of the stove oil?

HM: No, that was just for ours.

RP: Oh.

HM: I had to go... the oil, the place where the oil came out of that thing was at the end of the block. So there was a boy's bathroom, girl's bathroom, laundry room, big ol' barrack, uh... maybe it was something else, and then the oil, there was a big old thing and there was a spigot and you put it in your... and I had, we were allowed two pails of oil. And I don't remember if I went everyday or once a week or what. But I remember I had to carry it home. And we were Block, Barrack 2 so I had to go all the way to the end of the block 'cause it starts at one. One the block, the block manager was in 1, the office. And then we were in 2, living in 2. So, and then the things we had to, I had to carry... But that was just for ours, not for the whole block. They, everyone had to get their own.

RP: Get their own.

HM: Uh-huh.

RP: Was that stove, did that keep you warm on a cold winter night?

HM: Hardly. I mean, that little thing is heating up the room that's... although when we moved, after my mother got married, we moved to a smaller room than the one we had with the Marukis. I don't know what size that was. If the Maruki's was twenty by twenty that was maybe half of that.

RP: Twenty by sixteen or...

HM: There was only room for my mother and father's bed plus my bed and my brother probably slept with them, I would think. He was still a baby. So he probably slept with them.

RP: Do you remember any...

HM: It was much smaller.

RP: Do you remember any furniture in, in your room?

HM: No. I don't think we even had a table. I don't remember. I must have had a table later to make the formula, 'cause I had to do that. But it wasn't a big table. But I must have had something in there to... 'cause I had all the milk bottles and stuff to fill. [Laughs] You're asking me things that happened how many years ago?

RP: Well, you keep answering these questions so I keep asking you things.

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