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MA: And how long did you do the housework job?

KY: I think maybe three years, two years. No, I would say two years. And out of the two years, I went one year to this school, beauty school. Then, then I... what did I do after that? Then I went back to Insley, I think.

MA: You moved back in with your family?

KY: I think I moved back, 'cause my sister was, my older sister was gone by then. And my younger sister was gone, too, but by then, 'cause that's when she finished high school, and she went to the U, and she was over there, so yeah, so there was nobody at home, so I went back and lived at Insley.

MA: So your sister, your younger sister ended up going to college?

KY: She went to University of Washington, uh-huh. So she's, see, I graduated in '45, she graduated in '50, from Lewis & Clark, and so from 1950 to a four-year college, that was '50, '54, she, uh-huh, so that was about the time... well, no, actually, no, 'cause I got married in '52, so that doesn't come out right, does it? [Laughs] So I went to, I went to do housework for two years, that was '45, '46. And I graduated beauty school in '46, I went back home at '47, and there was '48, '49, so the three years I worked. I worked in the beauty school, I worked at Washington Photo, and I worked at the bank. I had three different jobs. Then I got married, so I didn't work at all after that.

MA: Going back a little bit, you said that your older sister had left camp early and moved to Chicago. So, did she join you in Spokane?

KY: Uh-huh, uh-huh. After we moved to Spokane. But she didn't stay in Spokane too long, because she got a job in Seattle, so she went to work for, I don't know, you know Toru Sakahara, the lawyer? She worked for him. And then she took a civil service test and got a job in Japan.

MA: So your family was, was Buddhist?

KY: Right.

MA: And when you moved to Spokane in 1945, had the Buddhist Church in Spokane been established yet? It got established in '45. The minister, I think, Reverend Terao, must have been in camp because he's the one that organized that church in his home. It was on Sixth and Cowley, and we had our services in his home. But... you know, at that time, I don't know if, if there was too many Buddhist people, locals, you know. Maybe there was, but there was no church, so I think they all went to the Methodist Church. But when the Buddhist Church was formed, there was quite a few, the membership was quite a large congregation, uh-huh.

MA: So it was mostly people, then, who had come from camp?

KY: Come from camp, uh-huh, right.

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