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RP: And then you came back to California?

FY: Well, one of his colleagues was in Sacramento. He said, you know -- he was a surgeon -- and he says, "I need a good internist, so come to Sacramento." And I said, "Sacramento? Gosh, I don't know if I want to go back to Sacramento." But the opportunity was there, so we came back, and there were several physicians who helped him establish a practice.

KP: So how had Sacramento changed, or had it changed?

FY: Then... better.

RP: In what way?

FY: In what way? I think there were a lot of people -- Sacramento has changed. Of course, there's a lot of people who came from different states, and I felt as though it was much better. We no longer associated with just Japanese. Lot of our good friends were Caucasians.

RP: How about the Japantown area, specifically...

FY: In Chicago?

RP: Yes, in Chicago relative to the one that you knew here in Sacramento?

FY: I don't know if they had... I don't think they had a Japanese town in Chicago. If there were, I wasn't conscious of it.

RP: I think you were creating it.

FY: Yes, uh-huh.

RP: How about the Japantown that you came back to in Sacramento?

FY: In Sacramento? We didn't come back to Japantown, 'cause there just wasn't any Japantown in Sacramento. There were a few stores, but it wasn't Japantown anymore, as it used to be.

RP: And you said that you attended college?

FY: Yes.

RP: Where did you go?

FY: California State University.

RP: In Sacramento?

FY: Yeah, in Sacramento.

RP: And what did you take there?

FY: Humanities. Since I didn't have to, since my husband already was established in his practice, I decided, "I'll take humanities, 'cause that's fun." And so when we studied about Egypt, we went to Egypt. When we studied about Germans, well, we went to Germany.

RP: Did you maintain your interest in Japanese culture? Did it continue to be...

FY: Yes, I always did enjoy Japanese art, especially.

RP: I saw you came in with the Art of Gaman book.

FY: Oh, yes, that's right.

RP: Did you get a chance to see that exhibit in San Francisco?

FY: No, I didn't. I love opera, and so we used to go to San Francisco to listen to operas and things like that, and symphonies.

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