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HH: Backtracking a little bit, at what point in your life did you become married?

GO: Let's see. That was... I was with the American Friends Service Committee then after the university job ended. And so I was, that was 1946, November of 1946.

HH: And this person you got married to, where did the two of you meet?

GO: Well, while I was visiting my sister's family at Seabrook, New Jersey, my brother-in-law found out that there's another family from the same village in Japan that came, a Yasumoto family. And I guess Mr. Yasumoto and my brother-in-law probably went to school, same school in Japan. And they had many children, and I don't know whether you know my sister or not, but she started to ask me a question, said, "Do you intend to ever get married?" I was thirty then. And I said, "I have no intention of not getting married." [Laughs] So they thought one of the Yasumoto girls might make a good wife for me. So that was the beginning. And in the meantime, Homer Morris used to say, "George, seems like your visit to your sister is becoming more and more frequent." [Laughs]

HH: I see.

GO: So when we married, we got married in Morris's living room. So they, when the children came, they started to call children their grandson, and we developed a very close relationship with that family.

HH: Oh, so that brings us to the next question about your children. You have how many children?

GO: Well, we ended up with three, three boys. And two of them are married now.

HH: How old are they and what are they doing? Starting from the oldest.

GO: Well, oldest one is forty-five, and he's the director of the Center for International Studies as well as professor of political science at MIT in Cambridge. Next son is about eighteen months younger, is Robert Kei is the Japanese name. Incidentally, Kenneth's Japanese name is Akito. And Bob is at UCLA, went to medical school at Stanford, and got two degrees while he was there. So he's at UCLA medical center.

HH: He's a faculty member there?

GO: Yes, still teaching, I think, not as heavy. Also much administrative responsibility as well. And the youngest one is Daniel Morito. He's not married, he's in Westchester, Pennsylvania, working at a security coordinator at a big television advertising outfit.

HH: Okay. And at this point, how many grandchildren do you have?

GO: So far there's only one, Ken and Willa. Our granddaughter is now five and a half.

HH: And they are the ones, that family lives in the Boston area?

GO: Right, they just recently purchased a house in Wellesley.

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