... After finally telling her, they kissed, then suddenly she ran off, but Ishmael knew he had done the right thing. He knew in his heart that "it had started on the day they"d clung to his glass box and kissed in the sea, and now it must go on forever"(Pg. 100). After a while, they started meeting ... inside a hollow cedar tree, and continued to do this for 4 more years. When they became high school ... he loved her, and always would, and he was sure that everything would work out, but she doubted him. Hatsue's family was preparing to leave for the Manzanar internment camp, so she took her...

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... Lake, California; Minidoka, Idaho; Manzanar, California; Topaz, Utah; Jerome, Arkansas; Heart Mountain, Wyoming; Poston, Arizona; Granada, Colorado; and Rohwer, Arkansas. Life at the camps was difficult as families with their few possessions crowded into tar-papered barracks. Common areas were used for eating, laundry and bathroom facilities. The internees created some familiar routines for schooling and socializing, but limited opportunities interrupted other social and cultural ... they encountered. Several of them were killed by military guards posted for allegedly resisting orders. ...

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