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The Disruption of Japanese American Life
When Sally was a kid, fortune cookies were still made in Japanese bakeries. 120,000 of us during World War II were sent away to concentration camps. In the camp, her parents were given jobs that earned hardly any money. For four years, from 1942 to 1946, California's Japanese and Japanese American community was marooned in the desert.
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