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LT: How did you and your husband meet?
MN: We met in camp, in Tule Lake. Well, I knew him from before. He lived in Tacoma, and we went to dance in Pinedale. But after we went to Tule Lake, we had a birthday party we went to, and we started going out together, and that's how we started dating.
LT: Did you go to a few dances together?
MN: Uh-huh.
LT: He was a pretty good jitterbugger?
MN: I don't remember. [Laughs] He lived on one end of Tule Lake and I lived on the other end.
LT: Well, and then you got married in 1943.
MN: We went into Minidoka because my sister-in-laws were both still in Minidoka, so they arranged the ceremony and the dinner and everything. So we just went in, got married, came back out again.
LT: I'm trying to imagine a wedding ceremony in a camp. Can you tell us who married you and where the ceremony was and what it was like?
MN: Oh, they had a Buddhist church in Minidoka, and we had a Buddhist minister.
LT: And what do you remember about the ceremony?
MN: Well, my best friend was the maid of honor, so they performed it in the church, then went to the barracks and had our reception, then we came out of camp.
LT: What did you wear?
MN: White suit, it's a white dress, actually, with a skirt and top.
LT: And what did you eat at your reception?
MN: I don't remember.
LT: And then you had dinner at the mess hall?
MN: Uh-huh.
LT: So you began your married life in camp.
MN: No, came right out.
LT: With the ceremony at the camp.
MN: Yeah, then we came out that same day.
LT: And as a couple you moved to Fruitland, Idaho. And what did you do there?
MN: Well, my husband was there.
LT: What did he do?
MN: Farm, help with the farm.
LT: And he worked for Watanabe Farms?
MN: Uh-huh.
LT: And what was your role while your husband was...
MN: I'd go over to the owner, and she had adopted a girl, and I'd go over there and help her sew and help cook or whatever, spend my time over there, and make clothes.
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