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TY: [Jpn.] I see. Where did your husband live after he came to the U.S.?

MK: [Jpn.] Well, Tacoma.

TY: [Jpn.] Tacoma.

MK: [Jpn.] Do you know Tacoma?

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] There was a lumber mill in Tacoma. A big lumber mill. There were big, what do you call, not lumber... you cannot say a big tree, what do you say?

TY: [Jpn.] Tree? [Laughs]

MK: [Jpn.] Well, tree. What do you call that, that thing after you cut down a tree?

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] Then you mark that.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] After inspection, you mark a grade. He did that kind of work.

TY: [Jpn.] Did he do that all the time since he came here?

MK: [Jpn.] So he had an easy job. Then he got a hard job.

TY: [Jpn.] In the greenhouse?

MK: [Jpn.] He really came to a bad place.

TY: [Jpn.] But your husband was brought by his father to the U.S. and his father was working there...

MK: [Jpn.] Yes.

TY: [Jpn.] He joined the company.

MK: [Jpn.] Yes.

TY: [Jpn.] Who was running the lumber mill?

MK: [Jpn.] Who? That was my father and...

TY: [Jpn.] I mean the tree. The lumber mill in Tacoma.

MK: [Eng.] Hmm?

TY: [Jpn.] Your husband worked for a lumber mill in Tacoma, didn't he?

MK: [Eng.] Yeah. Right.

TY: [Jpn.] Who owned that company?

MK: [Jpn.] Oh, what did they say? A lumber company in Tacoma. What was the name?

Lillian: [Eng.] Just a sawmill.

TY: [Eng.] Sawmill?

MK: [Eng.] No, lumber company... big lumber company.

Lillian: [Eng.] What, like Weyerhauser?

MK: [Jpn.] Weyerhauser. Yeah. He worked for something like that.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] Yes. There were many here and there.

TY: [Jpn.] So, after he married you, he started working in the greenhouse.

MK: [Eng.] Yeah.

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