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MR: And so sometime in that time, is that when you met your husband?

MY: Yes. Homer was going to medical school at the time that I was going to Drexel, and I don't know. I guess we met at the International Institute. This was this church sponsored organization where they would have socials every weekend. They'd have dances, and I imagine all the Japanese community came out for that because that was a good time to meet other young people, and all the students seemed to gather there, too. So it was a place where we all went, and we enjoyed it. I met his roommate at the International Institute, and through this friend, I met Homer.

MR: Were you close to graduation at that... I mean, where were you in your academic career when you met Homer?

MY: I believe we knew each other a year or so before I graduated. And when I graduated, he was already in Milwaukee going to, for his internship at a hospital there.

MR: Wisconsin?

MY: Yes.

MR: Now, this is after the war, is that right?

MY: Yes.

MR: Okay. Let's go back, just backtrack a little bit. When the war was over, where were you and how did you find out and what were you thinking?

MY: When the war ended, I believe I was in Seabrook, that was summer of '45, and I went, I left camp in December of '44, so I was in Seabrook, New Jersey, at the time. The war ended, and of course, we were all elated because of that, but life went on. We continued working there. I don't think it really changed too many people's plans.

MR: Did your family ever entertain notions of returning to Oregon or to California, I'm sorry.

MY: Yes, I believe so. I know my mother wanted to because my father was buried there, and I have a sister who was buried there also, and her friends were all back there too, but she was living with my sister in New York and my brother in law. And then after a year or so, they had children, so Grandma was very happy to be there with them. And later on when we were already on the West Coast, then my older sister had returned to the West Coast. My mother went back to Los Angeles to live.

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