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TI: Now during this time, was Shig still overseas?

FK: No, he had, he was going to school at UW. He came back to UW and finished school there, he was going to school.

TI: Okay, so he was in Seattle when you were in, in Portland? So at this point, were you still sort of dating each other, it was long distance?

FK: Well, yeah, we were, we were engaged by that time, I think, yeah.

TI: Okay. And then so, so why don't you talk about getting married to Shig.

FK: Well, so he, he finished school that December, December of '48, and so we got married the first part, 3rd of April.

TI: And where was the wedding?

FK: In Portland.

TI: And who, and so were there the same people in your, in the wedding party in terms of some of the people from Minidoka in both...

FK: My wedding party was from... mine was my sister-in-law and my two girlfriends from Portland. And Shig has his friends from Seattle.

TI: Good. And then after you got married, where did you live?

FK: We came up here to Seattle, and we lived in a duplex on Sixteenth, between Fir and Spruce. No... yeah.

TI: And then, so what kind of work did Shig do when he was in Seattle?

FK: Well, right after that, he went to the Metropolitan, I think it was Metropolitan Business College. He had, so he wanted to take more accounting, and then he worked at the College Club for, in the evenings, and he went to school during the day, for that one year.

TI: And then how about you? Did you work in Seattle?

FK: Yeah, I worked, I transferred to the BPA here, office here, until I had my, I had Rod.

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