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BN: So how long, you got married in, like, what, 1980, I think? How long did you stay back east after you got married?

RO: About five years.

BN: So you moved back here, back to California already.

RO: Yeah. And then it's been a long time, we're still together.

BN: Still here. What kind of drove you to want to move back to California?

RO: Yeah, she wanted to go back to Seattle. Finally... I talked, well, I didn't talk to her about it. I think it's in my life story about trying... she wanted to live there, I wanted to live in So Cal. And so I went to Seattle, and I picked out the top four companies and I talked to each of them about a job and only one of them offered me a job. It wasn't as good as the job that I had already been offered in So Cal, so I was able to say, well, look, this is (not) as good a job as the one that I could get there. I talked her into moving here instead.

BN: So she had to come down here?

RO: Yeah. So anyway...

BN: So where did you end up working when you came back here?

[Interruption]

RO: I was one of the top (Chief Information Officer) people in that company. And there were thousands of people in that company. [Narr. note: Volt Information Sciences is the company at which I worked for the rest of my life, my work life.]

BN: But you're doing the same general type of work?

RO: Yeah, same stuff, right. But I now had a title.

BN: I imagine just the nature of the technology changed so much that the specifics of the work was probably very difficult, right? You were starting twenty-five, however many years ago. Did you move here at that time?

RO: Out to this place?

BN: Yeah, or to this area.

RO: Yeah.

BN: And how long have you been here at this house?

RO: Twenty years, twenty-five years, something like that. Yeah, we're very, well, I'm very happy with the place.

BN: Yeah, it's very nice.

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