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SG: So you mentioned earlier that you, at this time you were married. You got married to your wife. How did you meet your wife?

BO: Oh, that one my older sister, she met her and she's a lot of fun and she works in the nurse's aide in the operating room, and she said that she'd be the right one for me, so I said okay. And it's such a quick, you have no time to think or anything, and she didn't either, so, and they were closing the camp, so the mother and everybody else had to move out and grab a hold of boys and hang onto them and go out with them. If you miss them, you don't get a chance because they're closing the camp already. They cut the heating and all that off, so that's why they came like about three families, four families, came with us to Minneapolis. Then once they got to Minneapolis, then they disperse out to different jobs or whatever they find. Chicago is, got almost a whole relocating camp, and you don't hardly see any Japanese. Chicago's so big.

SG: So where did you meet your wife?

BO: In camp.

SG: She was working at the hospital camp?

BO: Minidoka, baishakunin. Here's the head that's going up and down. I don't know whether he's sleeping or not.

SG: So where was, where's your wife originally from?

BO: Portland right by the old auditorium where they had the secondhand hotel, and her grandmother was running that while she was going to school and all that.

SG: So did you know your wife, did you know her when you were living here? When did you meet your wife? When did you see, meet her for the first time?

BO: My wife, the first time?

SG: Uh-huh.

BO: Minidoka camp.

SG: So you didn't know her when you lived here?

BO: Oh no, no. No, not me. Ted Hachiya knows her because in that group they played around. Ted Hachiya said that the log and stuff they played around by the Market General Building, and she had slipped and start sinking. He grabbed her hair and brought her up. That was my wife. She was drowning, and he tells me now and then about that, how he saved her.

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