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MA: So how did you meet your husband, is it Harry?

CY: It's Harry, yeah. It was baishakunin.

MA: Arranged...

CY: Arranged marriage, yes.

MA: Did you know who he was before?

CY: Oh, yes, I knew who he was, but since it was arranged, I didn't want to get married right away. So we took a year, almost a year before I got married.

MA: And tell me about your wedding. You said it was in the Buddhist Temple in Watsonville?

CY: (Yes.)

MA: Your wedding was in the temple?

CY: Yes, uh-huh, it was in the Buddhist Temple. It was, those days, we'd have a wedding at the temple and they'd have a reception in the hall. And that, at the time, we had a, for the older people, the reception was in the hall, and I think it was Mas Hashimoto's parents that did the reception, 'cause they were kind of doing catering business, Japanese catering. And then the, for the young people, they had a dance at a hotel, and that's where the younger people went. So it as quite a big affair, and the last one, since the war started a week later.

MA: Right, November 30th was your wedding.

CY: November 30th. And when the war started, you couldn't, you can't get together more than twenty people or ten people, something like that, and you can't go far away, and you've gotta be home by nine o'clock. There were a lot of restriction.

MA: So yours was really the last big celebration wedding, then, before the war.

CY: Oh, yes. (...)

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