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MA: And just, what were your sisters doing at that point?
GK: My sister, the one right under me (who) went to Abilene, together with me? All right, she got married right out of college. After she graduated, she got married in Texas, so she stayed there. And her husband's family is called Saibara, and they were at one time a big rice growing family, Edward's father was. So she married into that family.
MA: So they were from Texas?
GK: (Yes).
MA: Oh, interesting. Japanese American family?
GK: Right. Of course, (...) Jessie's husband, is a Nisei, but then his father is the one that started that rice growing business. And at one time, they were very prosperous and doing well.
MA: Wow, that's interesting.
GK: So then my sister got married right out of college and has stayed in Texas all during this time. Even to this day, she's still there.
MA: Oh, she's still there? Wow.
GK: Yeah, she is.
MA: So then in Chicago it was just you and Ruth and your mom, your mother?
GK: Right, (yes), just the three of us.
MA: And Ruth, did she continue high school in Chicago, or had she completed...
GK: Let's see, where was she about then? Yes, she went to high school. Oh, she went to Hyde Park High School on the south side, and so she finished there. And then she started at Northwestern, and then that's when she met her future husband. So then she got married and she didn't finish (college).
MA: And did she stay in the Chicago area after that?
GK: Yes, they live in a place called Joliet, Illinois, so that's about a half an hour from where we live, we live in LaGrange Park, so she lives close by.
MA: And does Jessie live near Abilene still?
GK: No, a place called Webster. Webster, (...) southeast of Abilene.
MA: And is her husband's family still involved in that rice business?
GK: No, no. They stopped that a long time ago. Then eventually Edward's father died. And after the father died, the business sort of slowly closed down, which is too bad.
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