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MA: And when you and your husband and your two daughters returned to the United States, where did you live? Did you go back to Berkeley?

CY: I went back to live at my family's, my mother's home at 1614 Tyler Street in Berkeley. That was our family home before the war, and we all came back to that house.

MA: And what was your mother doing in Berkeley?

CY: She was just a housewife.

MA: And your father at that time was, did he go back to gardening?

CY: No, he, he didn't. He was too sick, he had colon cancer. And so he had a bag, and so he wasn't... he was seventy-three when he passed away.

MA: And what year did he pass away?

CY: 1946. So he lived through the whole war and came home from evacuation. So he lived for about six, eight months after he came back, and passed away.

MA: And so back in Berkeley, what type of work did you, did you do when you got, when you returned?

CY: Oh, I went back to work for the U.S. Treasury.

MA: And what about your husband?

CY: My husband was, left for Japan soon after he came back once. He went back to Japan to work.

MA: To do more translation work?

CY: Uh-huh.

MA: And when did he come back for good?

CY: We all came back together in 1950.

MA: Oh, okay. And then, in 1950 and after that, when did you actually get the job at the International House at UC Berkeley?

CY: 1962. In, from 1962 to 1980, I was a University of California employee working at International House.

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