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SY: So did you feel at this point that New York was really your home?

MK: Well, I was getting to that point although I did eventually want to come back to the West Coast but I got very used to New York and their ways, the fast pace that we were going.

SY: You stayed there until what year?

MK: Ten years.

SY: You were there for ten years?

MK: Let's see, I went in '43, came back in '50, no seven, seven, eight years.

SY: So as soon as you were married you came back?

MK: Right.

SY: And why did you choose to get married in New York?

MK: Because all my friends were there.

SY: And your family had already moved back?

MK: No, my family was there still.

SY: They were still there.

MK: After I came back here then they all started coming back here.

SY: So it was you who were the first one to move back to the West Coast?

MK: Right. Sachi I think had gone to Hawaii to help Aki when she had her first baby so she stayed there.

SY: And you were --

MK: I was in New York then but then came back to Los Angeles and one by one they all started coming back to Los Angeles so that's where we all ended up.

SY: That's amazing. So your family all eventually wanted to end up back in --

MK: I think we all wanted to come back to California at one time but Aki of course had to stay in Hawaii. And my brother, George, worked for Hewlett Packard for many years and he settled in New Jersey so it's hard for him I guess to come back. We want him to come back and I think he would like to because he's retired now and he and his wife, no children so we'd love to have him back here.

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