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KP: So where, how did you meet your wife?

TT: I went to a... anyway, my wife -- well, before, I didn't know, but he was her uncle, and he was a good friend of the family. Their son was in the service, he was in Cuba, and he sold insurance, he had to go to L.A. I still say it was arranged, anyhow. [Laughs] So I went down to L.A. and then went to the house there. And (...) that's how I met her over there in L.A. They just moved in from, it was in Santa Maria, and they moved to L.A.

KP: You mentioned earlier, did you say that your wife had been in Crystal City? Your wife had been in Crystal City, did you say?

TT: Oh, yeah.

KP: Their whole family went?

TT: Yeah, oh yeah. Because, see, what happened is my father-in-law got picked up from the FBI. That was run by INS, Immigration and Naturalization Service, not the War Relocation, that was different. So anyway, he got picked up, and so they got together, anyway, they get to Gila, Arizona, they got together over there, and then something happened, and anyway, he got picked up again and he ended up at... got picked up again so he was sent to Crystal City, Texas, then his family went over there. Because the FBI had a list of, boom, boom, boom, they picked 'em up.

KP: So you met your wife in Los Angeles.

TT: Yeah.

KP: Then you went back to San Lorenzo?

TT: No.

KP: You stayed?

TT: By that time I was in Sacramento.

KP: Oh, that's right, Sacramento.

TT: Yeah. That was back in 1951. So it wasn't... I went through about the same thing a lot of other guys went through, family went through. So there's nothing unusual.

KP: So what did you, what did you end up doing for most of the years between 1951 and when you retired? What kind of work did you do?

TT: I was a machinist for twenty-eight years.

KP: With who?

TT: With Electro-Coating Precision Engineering. Precision Engineering sold it to Electro-Coating, and I retired from Electro-Coating. And retired in 1988. I worked, I think, over twenty-eight years there.

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