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RP: Was your wife Japanese American and did she have a...

HN: She was Japanese Issei, born in Japan.

RP: Oh, born in Japan. How did you meet her?

HN: I met her here in town because her, her father worked for my uncle in Japan. And my uncle told her father to tell her to look us up. And that's how I met her. And she was married to a soldier in Japan, American soldier. She married an American soldier, had two kids by him. And they came here and lived in, by Fort MacArthur here right down in San Pedro. And he passed away.... unfortunately he had some heart complications at a pretty young age, early fifties, yeah. And so I met his wife and got along well so I married her. I was quite old, thirty-two or thirty-three or so, somethin' like that. I had no intention of gettin' married, but you know how that is. [Laughs]

RP: Yeah, it's happened to me a couple of times.

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