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SS: Did you know at that time that you would eventually want to move back to the Seattle area?

EW: No, no. We didn't look that far ahead. I think by that time we had learned that you can't -- because of what had happened to us, going to camp and so forth -- I think you just learned that you don't plan ahead that far.

SS: Did you sort of carry that philosophy then through for the rest of your...

EW: Probably, probably. We didn't know what was going to happen to us. I think maybe, living in Minneapolis, and we enjoyed the people and so forth, but the climate was pretty bad. The summers, and the humidity, and the mosquitoes, and the cold winters, they were pretty hard.

SS: But it sounds like you were still a little homesick for this area, too?

EW: Oh yes.

SS: And you went to a University of Washington football game. What was that like over there?

EW: I don't remember that. He must have gone with somebody else. [Laughs]

SS: When did you eventually decide to move back to Seattle? Was it your decision, his decision?

EW: No, mutual. We didn't, no one makes a decision alone. We talk about it and we either -- if we don't agree, then we don't do it. But it wasn't hard to not agree because my parents were out here and his parents were in California. And when I think about it now, he did sacrifice somewhat to come back up here rather than to go to California.

SS: When you eventually moved back here, he eventually went to work for Boeing. What did you do?

EW: I had two children, and then we had a third and a fourth. I was a stay-at-home mom.

SS: That's hard work.

EW: It's hard, yes. But I was active in school, PTA and church and things... I had enough to do. Until the last one was in school, then I -- oh, and then I, we took care of our granddaughter, our first granddaughter for about two years. I took care of her so her mother could work. Then I decided, "Well, I've had enough." So they, she was able to get another person to take care of our granddaughter, who was a wonderful woman, so I didn't have any regrets that I was not taking, doing the best thing for her.

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