Post World War II
de Cristoforo and her children were repatriated to Japan in 1946. Her husband was sent to Japan separately. Life was not easy for the family. While living in Japan, de Cristoforo discovered that her husband had married a Japanese woman. She also witnessed first hand the destruction and the aftermath of the atomic bomb and its effects on Japanese civilians.
de Cristoforo met her second husband in Japan, an officer in the United States Army named Wilfred H. de Cristoforo. The couple moved back to the United States and settled in Monterey, California. In addition to her writings, Cristoforo took a job at The McGraw-Hill Companies. Their marriage lasted until Wilfred's death in 1998.
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