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TL: Do you think that your relationship and your marriage was very typical of other Nisei couples at the time? Or was it kind of... special?

YB: There were still some. I think it was... it was -- what should I say, fate, or...? Just a coincidence that happened. Happily for Mother, she was, I think she was so pleased, someone she knew, the family she didn't have to check. In those days they check into the family background, what illnesses they've had, and I said, "For goodness' sake." She said, "Oh, you can't marry someone that's got leprosy or whatever in their family history," and they go into a whole lot of problems that they bring up. But I used to be terrible and just upset mother to no end. "But Mama," I said, "after all, if someone's walking down the street, a tramp or anyone, if he's a real nice guy, I might even marry him!" "Oh, for goodness," she says, "don't say things like that." [Laughs] Because you're being so fussy.

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