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BH: Now how did you come to meet your husband?

AK: Well, it's a baishakunin marriage.

BH: So tell me how that happened.

AK: Well, Mr. Urata and Mr. Toyoka came over to our place with Kaz Kinoshita, and we seemed to hit it off all right at first. So I said okay, and he came to see me every week.

BH: And where was his family from?

AK: Gresham, Oregon.

BH: So it's a ways to go from Gresham to Nahcotta.

AK: It was. Yeah, he had to work hard on the farm, and I know he was tired. But he did come every week.

BH: How did you parents and his parents come to use these matchmakers? Did they know them from somewhere?

AK: I think that we knew the Toyokas, and then I'm not sure if he knew Mr. Urata, or maybe Mr. Toyoka asked Mr. Urata to join him, I don't know. I'm not sure about that.

BH: Was one of them from Seattle?

AK: No, they were from the farm area in Gresham.

BH: Now what was Kaz's full name?

AK: Kazuo Kinoshita.

BH: And he was from Gresham. What did his family do?

AK: Farming.

BH: And when were you two married?

AK: We were married on March 24th... let's see... 1940... over at the Buddhist church.

BH: In Portland?

AK: In Portland.

BH: And where did you live after you were married?

AK: I lived in the family home. See, I moved right in with the family, and so they had built an extension to the house, and we lived quite happily there.

BH: Was Kaz the oldest son in the Kinoshita family?

AK: Yes, he was.

BH: So that's why you moved in with them? I see, okay. And what was married life like?

AK: How was married life? Just fine.

BH: And Kaz continued to farm?

AK: Yes, he did.

BH: Did you work on the farm as well?

AK: I did.

BH: Did your parents approve of Kaz and you marrying into a farming family?

AK: Uh-huh.

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