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LH: Now you and your husband, well, your husband to be, you knew him all along from childhood.

FH: Oh yeah, the family were good friends.

LH: That was Saburo. That is, you had nickname, Sab?

FH: Sab. Yes. Most of 'em say, Sab.

LH: Sab. How'd he get that nickname?

FH: Huh?

LH: Do you know what that was for- what Sab was for?

FH: No, he's just Saburo, and I just took the first three letters, I guess. He was a good guy. [Laughs]

LH: Could you -- good in what way?

FH: Huh?

LH: Good in what way?

FH: He helped me a lot. He was good-lookin'. He liked to cook, I didn't. [Laughs]

LH: When you went to, after high school, you graduated, and you, and then what happened? Did you stay in Bainbridge?

FH: I went one year to Japan with my father, 'cause Mother had gone back with my two younger sister, children. And they wanted me to stay in Japan but I didn't like it so, I wanted to come back.

LH: Why did your family decide to go back to Japan?

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LH: He was good-looking man, huh? You knew him since the time you were children because your families were good family friends?

FH: Yes, uh-huh.

LH: Did you start dating before you went to Japan?

FH: Where?

LH: Did you start dating Sab before you went to Japan?

FH: I dated... not too much, he's a quiet guy. Oh he wrote me couple times a letter in Japan, came back, and I saw him more. Still, he doesn't call to say, "Let's go movie," or anything -- there's one theater there on the Island, and not many places to go. But when he comes up, not in a farm clothes but dressed up, I know, oh, we're going to a movie. [Laughs]

LH: That was your signal. Now, what year was that that you came back from Japan?

FH: Thirty -- 'bout thirty-five.

LH: Thirty-five.

FH: 1935. Thirty, yeah, guess so. Thirty-four, thirty-five.

LH: How long...

FH: Got married '38.

LH: '38. At the time...

FH: Too long. [Laughs]

LH: You got married to Saburo and a sister of yours got married to --

FH: Ichiro.

LH: Another brother of Sab, the older brother of Saburo.

FH: Ichiro. Older brother, Ichiro. Ichi, ni, san.

LH: So, two brothers married two, the Nishinaka sisters. I see. Okay.

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