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TI: Going back to your wife, how did you meet your wife?

JS: Well, it was, she was young yet, 'cause when we got married, she was nineteen. Well, anyway, she goes to the same church I go, and the Japanese Presbyterian, Westview, and I happened to go to one of those Christmas play, and my wife was Mary, and then a friend of ours was Joseph. And I (...) saw her acting and I thought, "She's a pretty woman." So I don't know, I didn't, I didn't have the courage to talk to her, so I usually go to a place where all the Japanese hang out, they call it Cue Ball. I had a little bit of beer, and so I finally called her up and asked for a date. And then I think she knew where I was calling from, you could hear the cue ball and everything clinking away, (yes). At first, I don't know, 'cause I was much older than she was. I was at least twelve year difference. So for a while I went around with her, and I just stopped seeing her for a while. But I guess I just, I just couldn't so I went back and then we got married.

TI: Oh, that's a good story.

TI: So let me make sure, so you met her at a, at church, and she was in a play, you said? And she was playing Mary in the play?

JS: Mary, (yes).

TI: And then, and then you got the courage in a bar to call her with some beer, and then...

JS: That's the bad part.

TI: No, I think it's, it's a good story.

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