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DG: So you came to Seattle when?

MH: I came September. September. There, camp was 90 degree daytime.

DG: In Colorado.

MH: Uh-huh. So came here. I thought Seattle is a beautiful from Oregon suddenly changed to green, lots of trees. And I thought beautiful place, but get off the Seattle airport -- not the airport, the station, so dark and so cold and rainy. And Los Angeles not much rain so, so felt miserable. And then I came to bokushikan and that parsonage. There is a big room is all taken by church members and a small room, too, was open. If you... my three children, I put them in bed. Couldn't move. That room was open and then this one room for father and mother. Rest were all taken by church members.

DG: How long did you live like that?

MH: Few years, I think. Until... let me see. I retired. I bought the house, Beacon Hill. Father wanted retire so I bought the house at Beacon Hill and they all moved. Let me see. How many...

DG: But this was later.

MH: Ten years maybe, Father was a minister at Baptist church.

DG: So you lived in the parsonage the whole time, but gradually the rest of the families moved.

MH: Moved away. Yeah, takes about several month. And then funny things. I said to the church people, "My, Seattle is so cold." And then they scold me. I'm live Los Angeles so long and then the camp was 90 degree daytime and then here so cold, 40 something degree. Particular year so cold, and August and October had snow that particular year. So I was so cold and then scold by church member. [Laughs]

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