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SS: At what point did you meet Edith?

HW: Well, about two days afterwards when I was off duty, I thought, "Well, I'll just go walk through Burlington to see what this town is like." And I was walkin' down the street there late afternoon and I ran across a Japanese lady, and she noticed me, and she talked to me, and then asked me if I understood Japanese and I said, "Yeah." And she says, "Well, come on over, have some dinner with us." So, I didn't waste any time. I found out where she lived and I went right over there. That's when I met Edith, two days after Pearl Harbor.

SS: So Edith was that woman in town that you met?

HW: No, her mother.

SS: That was her mother?

HW: Yeah.

SS: Was it love at first sight? When you saw Edith?

HW: Well, there were two of them, she and her sister. I didn't want to play any favorites at the beginning. But it didn't take long. [Laughs]

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