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TL: Do you think that your father was hoping you would marry a Japanese American, or did he ever talk to you about such things?

HN: No.

TL: How about your mother's expectations?

HN: Oh, I think she wanted us to marry a Japanese American.

TL: Well, or would she have preferred that you married someone from Japan?

HN: Oh, no, I don't think so.

TL: What makes you think that?

HN: Because, well, I was nineteen when I left. And that'd be too young to marry over there. But my sister, she got married over there because she was over twenty-one. So I think she had a arranged, one of those arranged marriage. So she ended up staying in Japan longer, but eventually she came over later on. And she tried to get her husband to come back here, but he didn't want to come. So, well, she divorced him. And then she just stayed over here. But oh, no, I never wanted to marry a Japanese national. Actually we didn't even know any boys. When you go to a girls high school, you weren't allowed to mingle with boys. So the only boys I knew were my cousins.

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