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TL: In reflecting on your marriage with George and your former marriage with Clarence, would you say that the relationships were kind of just different, or were there some of the same...

YB: Completely different. Because -- I don't know how to put it. For one thing you were younger in your first marriage. There were trials and tribulations and hardships that we had to face, along with the war and everything else. And I had to stand by him regardless of what happened. And then our child, too. But I was always there to help him, to support him for whatever he was working for. Only I told him, "I just don't like this politic business." I said, "One time they say one thing and the next time they're saying another." I said, "I don't know where I stand any more." He said, "Well, you don't have to listen to all of that all the time." He said, "That's part of politics." And he's another one; he's so straight, he never tells a lie. And the boys couldn't, the rest of 'em couldn't take it. 'Cause he was the only Oriental in the group, and they were almost all lawyers that belonged to that group.

TL: Is this the Republican Club?

YB: Uh-huh. And I'd go to some of their meetings, and I said, "Do you mind if I don't go anymore?" [Laughs] I belonged to the group, but I go only when we had to vote or something. But when I listened to them talk, I said, "Can't you all come out straight and do it the honest way?" He wouldn't, because he was too honest, he never could lie.

But our marriage -- we weren't rich 'cause he would always give in to people who were having hardships, or, "I knew your parents and your dad so well and we've gone through a lot of rough times together," and he says, "Right now they'll give an excuse that they can't pay." Some of them went, without paying all their debts, to Japan and never come back. So we were left holding the bag in many ways. But...

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