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TL: How about your family, how do they respond to George?

YB: Well, they were worried about me. Immediately after Clarence died, "We're gonna' come and pick you up, so get packed. And we'll carry everything on the little pickup trailer and bring you home, and then you can ship the rest of the things. So get ready." My cousins, who adopted my sister, their family, and they were just like brothers and sisters. So I said, "Oh no, I can't move yet. There's too many things that are not finished over here and I can't go." She says, "Well, whenever you're ready, let us know 'cause we'll come after you." And they wanted us in the worst, wanted me to -- she says, "We can't keep track of you over there." She said, "If you're here, we can keep in touch."

And in the meantime, a year or two passed by, and -- no, more than that I think, because I stayed there for eight years almost. And that's when I decided to get married. George was after me for three months, and finally I gave in 'cause he said, "Do you know that two people who are lonely and can understand each other, shouldn't live alone." He said, "It's nice to have company and look after each other." He says, "I know you like a book because Marge talked about you every night while she's cooking, or doing something, what you did, what you ate, the good and bad. I know everything about you." And I said, "But I don't know everything about you except what she told me." However, he turned out to be very, very kind, always understanding; and giving and tolerated with whatever I had to do, never complained. And going in with the Japanese group and even joined my church. And his family had been Baptist for years, but he had never joined a church, but he did join mine before he passed on. But no one -- I shouldn't say no one. I don't think anyone could have been as kind, and understanding, and giving, and caring, as he was.

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