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TI: So we're, we're kind of winding down this interview.

JS: Sure.

TI: The last part I just wanted to finish with is, is how you met your wife.

JS: Oh. Well, you know, your dad is a good friend of Juggo Hata, and you know David and Larry. Well, Juggo is married to Yuri's sister, and I met Yuri through Juggo.

TI: So this was through a mutual friend back in Seattle, you met Yuri, and you started dating.

JS: Right.

TI: And so how much, how long did it take before the two of you got married?

JS: Let's see. I would say that it was relatively short. I had graduated from the university, and my plan was to go east to where my folks were. And, let's see, so I had met Yuri about a year before we got married. And so since I was planning to go back east, I guess I must have proposed to her, and she said, "Okay." And we had planned to then go back together, but at the urging of my family, my parents, they said, "If you have a job out, out there, in Seattle, that would be just fine." They were doing okay back east on their own. And so I hadn't, while I was going to school, I worked as a janitor cleaning the offices of an engineering firm. And when I graduated, the owner, he knew that I was in engineering. He said, "Well, if you'd like a job," he'd... 'cause he liked the way I cleaned his floors, I guess. [Laughs] So I accepted a job with them. The firm's name was Kerry & Kramer, and now it's called KCM, yeah. KCM stands for Kramer, Chin, and Mayo. Art Chin, do you know Art Chin?

TI: Yes, I do.

JS: Yeah. Art was, became the CEO of that firm. It's a fine consulting engineering firm. So I worked for them and, until I went into construction.

TI: And then how about children? Did you and Yuri have children?

JS: Yes.

TI: And so tell me about your children.

JS: Okay. We have four children. Yuri was married prior to my marriage to her, and so our daughter Cheryl, the eldest, who is fifty-nine now, she was three years old when I married Yuri. And then I adopted Cheryl. Then we had our son Dean, who's our oldest boy. I think it was about, about a year after we were married, we had Dean. And then we had Jason, who was a year younger than Dean. And then there was about four years and we had our youngest, Doug. So we have four.

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