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Title: Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview
Narrator: Peggie Nishimura Bain
Interviewer: Alice Ito
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: September 15-17, 2004
Densho ID: denshovh-bpeggie-01-0070

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AI: Well, now I wanted to kind of bring things up to the present, because one thing that's very unusual for anybody is to have as many generations in the family as you do. And I understand you have great-grandchildren, so you have five generations in your family now.

PB: Yes, I have great-great-grandchildren, two of them now. The little boy's gonna be five... one is already five, I guess. And the little girl just had her first birthday. I haven't seen her yet, hope to see her soon before she grows up too fast.

AI: That's wonderful.

PB: I don't think there are many five-generations. At least, I know I watch the obituaries because so many of my friends are gone, and I keep wondering how many are left, and I check them every day, and I read the, who's left, and I hear, I see great-grandchildren, but great-great, I probably seen maybe two that had great-great-grandchildren. And, of course, they're deceased, but I'm still here. [Laughs] I don't know how much longer, but I am thankful for every day that I'm around.

AI: Well, and in fact, you, in the later part of your life, you found another love, and you were going with another fellow for quite a while, and eventually you did marry him.

PB: Yes, through friends, I went to cook a sukiyaki dinner, because since I had cooked for these people before, they wanted me to cook for friends of theirs. They said, "We'd like to have you make a sukiyaki dinner for friends of ours." So I said I would go and fix dinner for them if they would buy the ingredients necessary. So I went and cooked dinner, and we had a lot of talk. They lived up on the hill in Auburn, and owned quite a large piece of land there that they had been selling in lots. And it was a very lovely home, and I cooked dinner, and I guess they liked the food. And that's how I met this man. I had no idea that I would have any further plans with him or anything like that. It just seemed like we were, I had just met another family that I had made dinner for. But one day he came over and called on me, and I was quite surprised to see him. I didn't know much about him or anything, but later learned that he had been captain of the airlines, and I thought that was interesting. I didn't know at the time that he was separated from his wife or anything, but he started coming over, and he always would park his car away from the street so he couldn't be seen from the street, and I thought it was kind of odd that he always concealed his car. And he said his wife was checking up on him -- [laughs] -- but I found out that he was checking up on his wife, and she was checking up on him. But evidently they were on a verge of a divorce, and they got divorced, and he came over quite often, and we became good friends. He was very helpful; he would always help me do things, and I thought it was real nice, especially since I wasn't that well, you know, I finally got my brace off and everything, but I was having a difficult time. I had this big, almost 2 acres of ground, and it was a lot of work to keep it up. But anyhow, we eventually got married. We had gone together for maybe twenty years before finally decided that he'd get married.

AI: And how long were you married then?

PB: We were only married eight years, actually.

AI: But you, but you had been together for...

PB: But we'd been together for thirty-five years.

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