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RM: So I'm curious, we've heard about that big stack of letters between you and Fujiko. How did you two reconnect after being in a different state?

GO: We corresponded, letter. When we got back to North Hollywood, I went to see her.

RM: Was she happy to see you?

GO: I don't know. [Laughs] And then those days, there was butter that was on ration, they had to have stamps and all that. But in Denver, I don't think there was. So I used to send them butter just to get in good with the parents. [Laughs]

RM: You were "buttering 'em up."

GO: Yeah, that's it. That was it. Because butter was hard to get over here. Yeah, so I used to send them butter and whatever they couldn't get over here.

RM: So were you two dating for a while, and when did you get married?

GO: Oh, we were dating for, yeah, we were dating. We got married in '48.

RM: How long had you been back in California before you got married? Oh, yeah, it's okay. [Laughs]

GO: My mind is working.

RM: I know, I'm putting you to work today, huh? Where did you get married?

GO: Right here.

RM: In Las Vegas?

GO: Las Vegas.

RM: Where at?

GO: One of those... oh, I don't know where, someplace. Wait a minute, where is... what's that hotel? Right there, the first hotel on the strip? Sahara.

RM: The Sahara, yeah.

GO: That's where we stayed.

RM: Okay.

GO: So the chapel was... I don't know where it was.

RM: A chapel near the Sahara, though.

GO: No, I think it was this way here someplace. Anyway, we came, my brother drove us with his wife, and the oldest daughter, she was a witness. My daughter thought I was kidding her, "You were a witness at our wedding." She said, "Yeah."

RM: I see. So you drove out from Los Angeles, your brother drove you out from L.A. to come get married in Las Vegas?

GO: Yeah.

RM: That's exciting, I didn't know that.

GO: I guess that was the easiest way.

RM: So where did you two live after that?

GO: Well, we lived in a place where my parents were living on one side, this person had a big yard. So he built a duplex on one side, the corner. So we took half of it, and my other friend took the other half. So we stayed there 'til we, 'til I started farming on my own.

RM: So this was, you were originally at your parents' farm.

GO: No, this was someplace where this fellow let us stay at his place, because this was a residential district.

RM: Okay. And where was it?

GO: North Hollywood.

RM: In North Hollywood. And what was your job then?

GO: Job... what was I doing anyway? I was doing something. Anyway, I took it off and then went to Vegas.

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