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JC: What are your thoughts about the reparation, and does that make any difference? Does that have an impact?

SN: It was just nice to have money. That's all I could say. I think it was, it's not a large amount of money, but it was certainly, it certainly was helpful for many to feel that they were compensated for their sufferings and many of them, I know we suffered, but I have to think that some people really suffered very, very badly, lost a great deal. We could lose some because we were well-off enough to be able to take the loss; but for others, a loss was just wiping them out completely. To those people, war, the evacuation was very bad, bad thing to happen to them and not knowing what to do. We were lucky that we had Mrs. Saunders to take care of it. And also, I already told you about the other merchandise, the wholesale merchandise we had from Japan was taken care of by Mr. Nichols. His name is A.J. Nichols, and he was our salesman. And he's the one that sold all the merchandise to Seaside, agate people, took the agate polishing machine and polished the merchandise. [Laughs]

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