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[Translated from Japanese]

TY: In Salt Lake, what kind of job did your husband work?

AT: In the beginning, he was just hanging out. But, finally, he was told that he should work. He said something like, "Hmm, that's right." There was a newspaper company that wrote. It wasn't really a newspaper company, but he went there to work. It was good that he started, but... When he arrived in the morning, he went, "Good morning! Good morning!" He went around to everybody. He said he hated it. He hated lowering his head to others. [Laughs] Let's see, one month, he didn't work there for two months. He quit.

TY: That was before the war. At the Mitsui Product.

AT: It was during the war. When we were evacuating.

TY: When you were evacuating. That kind of thing happened in Salt Lake City, too?

AT: At Salt, too. Yeah.

TY: You told us that such a thing happened in Seattle, too.

AT: Yeah, yeah, yeah. He hated it. I told him that his head was high since he grew up as a master. I said it shouldn't matter if we couldn't keep eating. Well, at that time, one of our daughters was working. Fusako was old enough. She graduated from high school, and she went half the way in college. She said, "Mama, I'll work." So I said, "Where are you working?" Then she said, "At a doctor's house." At the house of a doctor. She was going to work at the office. I said, "Oh, that'll be nice." She said, "They told me to bring Mama with me, so let's go, Mama," and she took me there. Then, I knew the doctor's wife. She said, "Oh, Mrs. Terao, it's been a long time since I saw you. Thank you for coming all the way." When I said, "Oh, it's you. I was thinking that I had met you somewhere before," then she said that she was from Salt Lake. She said that she went to Seattle just for a while and studied, and she got married here. It happened like that, and he was a good doctor. Whenever we said the hip hurt a little and the legs hurt, he would examine but wouldn't take money. [Laughs] He said he didn't want it.

TY: Was it a Japanese doctor?

AT: Uh-huh. He was a good doctor, and everybody was seeing him. And, finally, my husband said this and that reasons and wouldn't go back to Seattle even after the war was over. He said, "We'll go back when tofu shop opens up," and wouldn't return.

TY: Your husband.

AT: Five years. We were there for five years. In Salt Laki.

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