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AI: Well now somewhere along the line there you got married, had kids. When was that?

RS: Well I had -- I got married in 1948 and I had a daughter then, and then from there I just stayed farming until about 1962. And I decided that I wasn't going to do this backbreaking job, so I started to go into college. And I went to California, although I kind of had bad luck. Got divorced, so I had to support the kids and I had no income, so I had to, I had about a year to go but I had to quit and take a job, with the process product branch for the federal government.

AI: And so then where was that job, where did that take you?

RS: I went to school in San Luis Obispo, so I took a job there and then I got transferred or they were -- there was a opening in Seattle, so I came here. And I've been retired from it now.

AI: So you stayed in Seattle and stayed with that job...

RS: Yeah.

AI: Section until you retired?

RS: Mm hmm, and I worked there about twenty-four years.

AI: Well then after your retirement, did you ever consider going back to the Yakima valley?

RS: No, I have no reason to go back there except seeing my friends, because I don't want to do that kind of work, plus there isn't too many Japanese people there now. And, I don't know, after being away -- being up here for twenty-five, thirty years now I just, I just don't feel like going back. I do go visit friends over there, few friends that's around there, but that's about it.

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