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MH: You said when you came back to Portland, you worked in the family business store. What did you do in this store?

LS: Clerking mostly, yes, and taking orders. We delivered groceries then. So it was about then I met Yoshio Sato. We had... let's see. We were engaged, and we were married on the 25th of August, 1940.

MH: And this was after your trip?

LS: Yes. I was already engaged, and then I went to Japan, came back. And for a time, he helped, he was a, he had a... no. He was a Reed College graduate, and he was working for his master's, and he went to Oregon State to complete his master's degree, and I remember typing his thesis. In those times, we had to make seven copies on carbon paper. [Laughs] I don't know whether you could read the last copies or not. It's wonderful that they have copy machines now.

MH: How did you meet your husband? How did you meet him?

LS: Well, I came back from my college on weekends, and I think it was a common friend that introduced us. Let's see, Mr. Matsushima, who was a sponsor of Yoshio when he came back from Japan, and Dr. Koyama went to the family. They said that I ought to meet him, and I think we got along very well.

MH: And so what were your dates like with him when you went out with him? What were they like? What did you do?

LS: We went to dog racing, that was new. We went to movies, and I don't think we did horseback riding, whatever we had over the weekends because he was working for his master's.

MH: Now you said you were married here in Portland.

LS: Yes.

MH: Where were you married?

LS: Right in this house.

MH: Right in this house. Did you have your neighbors come to your wedding?

LS: No, I didn't. I had only a few people, just a few relatives, and Helen Godac from my high school days, and Yoshiye Ito was my very close friend, neighbors way back. Other than that, I don't think we had anyone else right here.

MH: And who married you?

LS: A minister, a Reverend Bennett. There's a church back of our store right there. He acted as a minister for us.

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