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MN: Now, after you returned to the U.S. in 1964?

AT: Yes.

MN: What did you do?

AT: I went back to school. But again, this time I went full time, I mean, daytime, full time, and then I worked part time. And I went back to the old company to work, because I saw one of the boss there, and he told me, "Okay, come back from tomorrow." But I said, "No, no, I'm going back to school." But I was fortunate in that they, I was able to work there. So I went back to school. But, and then at certain period, I had to work full time, too, so my education really took a long time to finish. [Laughs]

MN: And then in between you also got married.

AT: Yes.

MN: How did you meet your husband?

AT: One of those high school, that Japanese student gathering or something. So I knew, one of my friend had introduced us.

MN: Now, what prefecture is your husband from?

AT: He's from Kagoshima. But again, he's in same situation as me. His mother was born in the Imperial Valley, and they're one of the rare family that actually made it here and moved back to Japan. So apparently they had a big farm in Imperial Valley, and all the children, they had four, four children. I think three were born, two or three were born there. And so they moved back to Kagoshima, and his mother was oldest daughter, and she married my father-in-law. And then shortly after they married, they went to Manchuria. So that's where he was born. And then after the war, from Manchuria they came. And then parents divorced, and mother came here. Mother came here, and at that time, I think he called my husband and came here. In fact, he came here in high school, so he hadn't finished his high school in Japan.

MN: So his family didn't have any problem of him marrying an Okinawa person?

AT: No, I don't think so. I never had anything, coolness from them.

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