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DG: Then let's see... you stayed at the parsonage with your father, and did you start to work?

MH: Let me see. No, after we moved to Beacon Hill, I bought the house.

DG: Okay.

MH: Beacon Hill. And then moved to Beacon Hill and then I worked first, I worked -- they start a nursery school church. Necessary to have a -- first a Baptist church women's club sponsored in back of Ms. McCollough and then missionary. And then Ms. McCollough and then those people started the nursery school. So ask me to help so I did.

DG: So were your sons in the nursery school?

MH: Uh-huh, teaching. So at first I said that I could teach music. See, English song and Japanese song, all music I will teach so I started. And then May Katayama came back from Los Angeles and then I helped more teach. The May Katayama is May Hart or something, maiden name. And then she married to the Japanese Katayama. So that time the marriage isn't familiar in Seattle so they eloped to Los Angeles. And then that time we are Los Angeles. And then that's Reverend Andrews, I believe, wrote a letter to my father, "Would you please look at Mrs. Katayama. Where is she? How is she?" So we looked for her and then found her at Christian, Japanese Christian Church, Reverend Unaora's church, and working as a kindergarten teacher. So we knew from Los Angeles. So Mrs. Katayama came to Seattle, then the nursery school. I helped.

DG: Was the school started already when she came back?

MH: Uh-huh.

DG: So this was right away after you came back from camp.

MH: Oh, maybe took about a year or so. I don't know. They try.

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