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MA: So you... when, what year did you and your husband get married?

MT: '45. And we had our fiftieth. [Laughs]

MA: Where did you live? Did you live with your family?

MT: When?

MA: Right when you got married?

MT: Oh, I was with my mother and dad and my sisters, yeah, and brother.

MA: And then did you move into your own place?

MT: We moved into an apartment, there was quite a few Nihonjins there, and then as soon as possible, we moved into a house. I have a greenhouse that cost more than the first house we lived in. [Laughs] Yeah.

MA: And what did, what did your husband do for a living, I mean, after he worked at the tire shop?

MT: Oh, we, as soon as we got married, we took over my dad's laundry. I wish he had gone to school instead, now, after the matter, you know. But he had a, we had a laundry, and then after so many years, the Issei said, "Oh, you'll make more money at a hotel." So it was one of those -- excuse me -- "flophouses," and we had that for a few, several years and then he had a heart attack. So that was a blessing in disguise, because after, it was way back when, they didn't do too much of the heart thing, Spokane was the leader. And so they got 'em fixed up, and then he went back to school. He went to business school, and then there, when he got through, his boss, he worked, he got hired by a boss who was looking for a woman, but the teacher said, "Why don't you try Mr. Tai?" So he did, they did, and that's where he got on his two feet. Real good, did real well. So it's a stock and investment firm. I wished he had started there in the first place. [Laughs]

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