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MA: And I wanted to ask you how you met your husband, Dick.

KY: Well, we didn't just, we, in those days, we, we played in, like, groups. I mean, women, the girls would have their own group, the men would have their own group, we just kind of do things together. There was a club called Amicas, and I was in that girls group. And I don't know if the men had a group, but we would do things as a group, and there's where we met. And we did, we had bowling, the men and the women had bowling leagues, so that's probably where we met. I don't know. [Laughs] Then we would all go out (to the) lakes as a group, as a group. There were several, there was Amicas group, I think they called it Regina, and then there was a (Jugs), there was like three different groups of women.

MA: And these are all just women's groups?

KY: Just women, uh-huh.

MA: Like social groups?

KY: Uh-huh. They were like teenager groups. But I was in the older group, one out of the high school. And if you were in the high school, you were in that teenager group, and there was another younger group, too, and my sister was in that younger group.

MA: Oh, that's interesting. So there were actually organized groups?

KY: Well, I don't know if they were organized, but they had a name, and they, they met. It was just a social group, I think, it was just a social group.

MA: And then what year did you marry Dick?

KY: '52.

MA: Now, your husband, Dick, was, is Methodist, right? And you're Buddhist?

KY: Right, the whole, yeah, from the family, they're Methodist, uh-huh, and I was a Buddhist.

MA: So how did that work?

KY: It didn't work. [Laughs] It didn't work. That's why I had to come -- I wouldn't say had to -- but you know, I couldn't send my kids to the Methodist Church and he goes to the Methodist and I couldn't go to the Buddhist Church, so I got baptized in the Methodist Church in 1964. Then I've been active in that church for many, many years. But I did like my Buddhist friends, too, though. We used to go to conferences, to these Tacoma, Seattle, Ontario, I had a lot of fun. That was before I was married, so that's why I had fun. [Laughs]

MA: So you went to these conferences...

KY: I went to all the Buddhist conferences, yes. They were nice, they were fun.

MA: Was it like a week-long thing?

KY: Just a weekend, just a weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

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