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TI: Well, I'm glad you had this opportunity, for me to ask this question, I think it really clears things. You know, at this point, Elmer, is there any other questions that you have? I was going to ask Mas if there's anything else that you wanted to talk about or any other things. The one thing I wanted to get on the tape was for you just to -- and I forgot to mention this at the beginning -- is just for you to mention your family. We talked about your parents and your siblings but I never asked about your family and if you could just say a few words about, about your children and your wife.

FF: Oh, yeah. No, I... it was when was it back in the early 1960s, I was a living the life of Riley, like I said, I was really a part-time student and a full-time Jackson street bum. [Laughs] I never give a thought to getting married but I don't know, somehow that changed. In 1963, I married a girl from... she was originally from a place called Brooks, a little bit north of Salem. But she, postwar, they relocated in Portland and I met her through some mutual friends and we got married in '63. And we've had four kids now. The oldest, Cathy, she's married to Mark Takisaki who's in the construction business. And then Teresa, she's married to a fellow named Jay Mori who's a, he's an electrician. And, oh, David. David, he's a, he's married to a Chinese American girl, Sandra Goong. And Marci, she just recently got married last year. She was born, she's fourteen years younger than our oldest, and nine years younger than our youngest, the previous youngest. But she is now married to a fellow named Eric Shimizu. But we have seven grandkids and they're kind of the, the joy of our lives now. Yeah.

TI: Thank you. Elmer, do you have anything else?

EG: I was just wondering if the mutual friends that got you and your wife together were concerned that you needed to be got together with somebody.

FF: I don't know, that's a -- [laughs]

TI: That goes, the theme of the interview. [Laughs]

EG: I keep pushing that, don't I? [Laughs]

FF: You know, strangely enough, the, we're still married and the person that got us together is divorced. [Laughs]

TI: I hope they're not because they got you together. [Interruption] The date today is September 25, 1997. We're at the home of Mas Fukuhara doing a Densho interview. Interviewers today, is myself, Tom Ikeda and to my left is...

EG: Elmer Good.

TI: And the videographer behind the camera is Matt Emery.

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