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TIL Estelle Peck faced a decision after her Japanese husband was incarcerated, stay with her husband of 13 years and be incarcerated or remain in Los Angeles alone. She chose to be with her husband, making her one of the few non-Japanese individuals incarcerated in these camps.

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