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TI: Before we talk about Hawaii Hochi, I want to ask you about your wife. How did you meet your wife?

PY: Oh, okay. My wife was just like myself, a Kibei-Nisei born in Hawaii but educated, raised in Japan, and then come back to Hawaii just like me. And you know, we are second generation, but this Kibei-Nisei and the regular second generation like my brother or so, we have something different. The culture or whatever, the things that we eat, the entertainment, many things, it doesn't, sometimes doesn't click. So this Kibei-Nisei group, we form a, called a club, Sakura-Kai, and once a week we used to meet at the YWCA and we talk and then dance or this and that. And my wife was one of the member of Sakura-Kai, that's how I met her.

TI: And what was it about your wife that attracted you to her? What made her kind of stand out for you?

PY: Well, I was looking for a wife in those days, already. I forgot, I was how old now? I forgot. But yeah.

TI: So I think you met her in, like, 1954? So you were probably about twenty-seven maybe? Twenty-seven years old?

PY: I don't know, I forgot.

TI: Okay. What was your wife's name?

PY: Florence Kiyoko. Florence Kiyoko Honda.

TI: And so, good, so you met at this Sakura-Kai YWCA, and in terms of children, tell me how many children you had.

PY: I have, I have three children. The oldest is a son, and then next one is daughter. The son is Wayne, the daughter is Ann, and then the second daughter is Lynn. Wayne and Ann live in Honolulu and Lynn living in Sacramento.

TI: Good, okay.

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