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TI: So you, you mentioned your wife, and so I wanted to ask, when did you first, how did you meet your wife? First, tell me her name, too. What was her maiden name?

RY: Her name was (Kazue) Nabata, Kazue Nabata. And she, she and her sister and father and mother, I guess they all lived over at the Sunnyside Apartments. And I might be wrong, but anyway, their mother died while they were there, and her father ran a pool hall downtown, and she got, she got into beauty shop work, and she was working at, at a beauty shop, and her sister... she's, her oldest sister is now in Japan, and naturally, she's a widow now. And then the other one is down in California, and doing good. [Laughs]

TI: So how did the two of you meet?

RY: Huh?

TI: How did you meet Kaz?

RY: Oh, how did -- you asked me that already. [Laughs] Oh, I don't know, I guess it was through bowling. I guess she was bowling and, and she was a pretty good bowler, and I guess I kind of asked her to go out one time, and didn't go too well, but then after a while we got together again somewhere, I forgot how we got together. But yeah, and... yeah, she, she was, she was working at the -- well, she was a beautician, but then she got a job at the photo, photo finishing company. I remember that because I was taking, I was also a, doing photo work, I mean, part-time when I was, especially when I was taking pictures for the church and stuff, and I wasn't doing too much. That was when I was, had the apartment house, too. So that was, shows something, too. When I, when I would be taking large, large photo, you might say contract or whatever, used to take wedding pictures and church, church assembly pictures, well, I had to have, you know, had to have a dryer. So I talked my wife into -- at that time -- talked her into drying some of my, my prints. So she said, she did that for a couple years. [Laughs]

TI: So this was before you were, you were married, she would just do this.

RY: Yeah, before we were married, yeah.

TI: Well, but eventually you got married, and do you remember what year you got married?

RY: Oh, fifty-three, fifty-four years.

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