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KP: So after you graduated, not a lot changed in your life?

YM: No.

KP: Were you dating at that time or...

YM: Yeah.

KP: Anyone in particular?

YM: The man I married.

KP: Where did you, where did you meet him?

YM: Well, he, he was raised in Japan and when he came to America, that's when I met him. So, I've known him about, more than five years before we got married. Five or six.

KP: Was he born in Japan or did he...

YM: No, he was born here and he was raised in Japan.

KP: So he's Kibei.

YM: And... he's a Kibei.

KP: Was he different from the other young men that you knew?

YM: No, I don't know. Well he was told when he left Japan to look up our family. So he... and then he, he was sponsored by my uncle so that's why I got to know him. He lived with my uncle for a while. And that's how I met him.

KP: Where was he born, do you know?

YM: In Seattle.

KP: So he went from Seattle to Japan and then came back to southern California. So, what did... it was Toshio?

YM: Uh-huh.

KP: What did Toshio do? What kind of job, work did he do?

YM: Why he did mostly, like he worked for his brother-in-law and he worked for my uncle and things like that. But he used to be in the, the person that went to the wholesale market to take produce to a produce section of a supermarket. He was a truck driver at first.

KP: Is that how your, your father relied on other people to drive his crops to market or did he...

YM: Well, he worked for somebody that has a store and they had to go to the warehouse, I mean, the, wherever they sell the vegetables wholesale, he had to go pick it up and take it to the store. So that was... so it had nothing to do with the farming or anything like that.

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