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MH: When did you meet your wife, Amy?
KK: What was that?
MH: When did you meet your wife, Amy?
KK: September.
MH: About 1940? How did you meet her?
KK: Through a friend.
MH: Through a friend, a good friend of yours?
KK: No, good friend of the family.
MH: Good friend of the family. So was he an Issei man who introduced you?
KK: An Issei.
MH: And that's what they used to call what, when people met and hope they would get together and get married, what do they call that?
KK: Baishakunin.
MH: Baishakunin. Where did Amy live? Where did she live?
KK: I live in Gresham.
MH: When you first met her, where did she live?
KK: She lived in Nahcotta, Washington.
MH: In Washington. Where in Washington?
KK: Maybe just ten miles north of Long Beach, Washington.
MH: Okay. So on the coast close to Oysterville.
KK: Yeah.
MH: Well, did you date her from Gresham to Oysterville? Did you date her?
KK: No. Well, more or less, I guess.
MH: Did you go visit her?
KK: Yeah.
MH: How did you visit her?
KK: I went out there with my car.
MH: You had a car? What kind of car did you have?
KK: Chrysler.
MH: A Chrysler. And when you got there, what did you do with her?
KK: We were on the peninsula, we rode the peninsula.
MH: You went up the peninsula, drove around, go see a movie?
KK: Yeah.
MH: Did you stay overnight? I mean, it's a long ways to go.
KK: Yeah. I stayed overnight.
MH: When you got married, where did you get married?
KK: In a Buddhist church.
MH: In the Buddhist church here --
KK: Portland.
MH: In Portland and who was the minister at that time?
KK: Reverend Derek.
MH: Did you have a traditional Japanese marriage or did you have an American wedding?
KK: No. It was Americanized. It was Americanized.
MH: Did you have a party afterwards?
KK: Yeah, we did.
MH: And where was the party at?
KK: Ishigikki.
MH: Okay.
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