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HH: Can you describe the town that you were born in California?

LI: The times I had in...

HH: Town.

LI: The town?

HH: What kind of town was it? An industrial town, a fishing town?

LI: No, it was a farming district.

HH: Whereabouts in California was it located?

LI: It would be in northern California.

HH: That would be around San Francisco?

LI: Yes, about sixty miles from San Francisco.

HH: What kind of school did you attend back then?

LI: Well, kindergarten on to high school in San Juan Bautista.

HH: And how old were you when you arrived in Philadelphia?

LI: I arrived in Philadelphia when I was thirty-two.

HH: And at what point in your life did you become married?

LI: I was married in Los Angeles, 1935.

HH: 1935. And what was your husband's occupation at that time?

LI: He worked as a floor manager for Venice Celery. It was a, like a vegetable... well, factory, I guess you'd call it.

HH: And what kind of education did he have before he went into this kind of work?

LI: Well, he went to University of Berkeley in Berkeley.

HH: What did he study at the University of California at Berkeley?

LI: Engineer, mechanical engineer.

HH: When the internment, notice of internment arrived, what kinds of complications did you have, or did you have any complications in moving from your home in California to your assembly center?

LI: Well, when we have to move, we did not go into an assembly center because of my grandfather and my in-laws, and the children were all small. At that time, my third son was only six months old, so we didn't have to go to the internment camp. But we were about the last one that went to the camp, were sent to the camp.

HH: If I understand you correctly, you're saying you did not have to go to an assembly center, but you did have to go to an internment camp.

LI: Yes.

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