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JS: So tell us a little bit about how you met your husband, the Nakagawa family. How did you meet?

RN: Oh. They were good friends. My parents were good friends with the Nakagawa parents, and that's how they...

JS: Uh-huh, that's how they met. So the Nakagawa family, they lived with their...

RN: In Caruthers.

JS: In Caruthers.

RN: They had a ranch out there.

JS: Uh-huh. And they had two sons.

RN: Huh?

JS: Two boys in the family?

RN: Yeah. But none of the boys were like Tom. That was my husband. They didn't do work on the ranch.

JS: Oh, they didn't?

RN: They worked someplace else.

JS: Oh. So the Nakagawas were family friends with the Fujimuras.

RN: Uh-huh, yeah.

JS: Okay. And so your marriage was kind of a family arrangement?

RN: Yeah.

JS: And what else about the Nakagawa and Fujimura families? There was also...

RN: Well, they were good friends. Then Johnny, Johnny married my sister. So two sisters married the Nakagawas.

JS: So your sister Alice...

RN: Alice.

JS: ...who was just the sister older than you.

RN: Yeah. She married Johnny, I married Tom.

JS: Okay. And so when you and Tom were married, where did you live?

RN: I lived... where did I live?

JS: Did you live behind the restaurant?

RN: Yeah.

JS: Right before the war?

RN: Yeah.

JS: Uh-huh. And Alice and Johnny, did they live in Chinatown, too?

RN: Yeah, they did. Then they moved to some apartment.

JS: But neither brother, neither of the Nakagawa sons worked on the ranch at the time?

RN: No, uh-huh. None of them did the farm.

JS: Oh, wow. It was a big farm to manage. They must have had other workers.

RN: Well, Grandpa run the ranch with some help, outside help.

KN: Was Dad plumbing then?

RN: Huh?

KN: Was he a plumber then?

RN: Who, Dyna?

KN: Yeah.

RN: Yeah.

JS: Oh, okay, so he had his own business to run. Okay.

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