What's your love story?
Love story?
Pretty romantic.
I've never been in New York City before.
Before I went overseas.
So I promised myself if I got back alive,
first thing I'd go would be in New York City.
So that's what I did.
I was lucky to have my sister going to NYU,
New York University then.
So I moved in with her, August.
I think of that, you know, I met Fumi,
who went to a church picnic.
And I met her there.
And that was 1946.
Then I came back to Seattle to go to school.
We did a lot of riding back and forth.
One winter, my roommate at the dorm, Ray Pinnock,
I was talking about her all the time.
He said, I'm getting sick and sick of you talking about Fumi all the time.
And he plunked $300 on the table on my desk.
And he said, go visit her.
And so that late day, well,
it was kind of hard to get commercial flights.
But then I can't remember exactly how I heard about these pilots,
but these were World War II veterans who had bought a surplus C-47.
There must have been about 25 of us.
But the pilot refused to fly because the weather was so bad.
During that time, a couple of the pilots started collecting money from other GIs
to try to talk the pilot into going in spite of the weather.
And they came to me and asked me if I would donate money.
I said, are you crazy?
I'm not going to donate money and then have the pay go down.
But anyway, eventually we took off.
We got home.
I got to New York before Christmas.
And that's the only time I went back there on.
July 1st, 1950, we got married.
My mother and my dad, they were in Chicago.
Then they flew in from Chicago for the wedding.
But then two days before the wedding,
she got a cute appendicitis.
No one, no reason that we decided to get married
was that had taken that weekend off.
And so, you know, he had to go back.
And so we decided to go ahead and have it.
So that's when we had it in the hospital.
Anyway, so that was our beginning of our wedding.
We spent that week, we spent visiting her during the,
visiting our holding hands with her during the visiting hours for a whole week.
We came up to Seattle to look for a home.
And we had problem finding a home because of discrimination.
We decided to move to Barthol.
And we went to, there was a large housing development there.
And we went to look for a house there.
The real estate agent said,
I'm sorry, but you can't sell your house there.
But as luck would have it, we had moved into Barthol when I was 1960.
We rented a home when we first got there.
And the man that owned the, who rented a home had a property.
And he said, well, I'll tell you what,
if you let me build a house there, I'll sell you the house.
So that's how we settled in Barthol.
We were there about 50 plus years.
I had a boy, girl, boy, girl.
Well, what I'd done was go to Planned Parenthood
and Planned Parenthood and ask them about my,
so that's why we were able to arrange it that way.
Yeah, we were lucky to have the great kids.
I told them they turned out well in spite of us.
I think I've been through a lot of things that many people haven't.
I mean, I've had a very lucky and unusual life, I think.
And I'm really grateful for that.
I have a great family.
And the job that I was working as a research scientist,
I enjoyed the work that I was doing.
I feel very satisfied with the way my life turned out
and what I've done.
And I feel like I've done everything.
I mean, what is there left to do?
