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AI: Well, speaking of your wife, Marguerite, you had mentioned earlier that you had met at Minidoka, while she was a teacher, also. And, now, you... when was it that you married? Because you had left Minidoka, and she had left also, to go elsewhere? And so then how did you meet up again, and then --

RC: We kept in contact by phone and by letter. I went to Minneapolis to visit her and meet her father. We went (...) to South Dakota and met, and then made plans by phone. (...) We weren't going to be married until the summer of '46 and I just called her one night, (...) she was subbing in Minneapolis, and she wasn't happy. And I said, "Well, why don't you come out here and we'll get married on Christmas Day?" So we got married on Christmas Day. I asked our minister if he'd ever married anybody on Christmas Day. And he looked at me and he said, "Well, no." But he says, "It sounds like a nice thing to do." So, we were married on Christmas Day.

AI: How special.

RC: (Yes). So, we had a wonderful life together.

AI: Well, now, you had, you said you had three children then.

RC: Three children.

AI: And, when were, when were they born? When did they start coming?

RC: Oh, let's see. I'm trying to think... '46, '48 and '50. I think that's the way they are.

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