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Paul Jotz, a former Coast Guard member, made a bet with his friends that he would find a wife within two weeks after being discharged. Despite his rugged appearance, it was his possession of a car that helped him win a date with Clara Hagopian. They got engaged ten days later and had a happy marriage that lasted over forty years. When Paul Jotz was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his crewmates. They had arrived in San Francisco, where their ship was decommissioned, and Paul bet that he would find himself a wife within two weeks. He was a taut, tattooed engineer-mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance to James Dean. But it wasn't his looks that got him a date with Clara Hagopian, a sweet-humored daughter of Armenian immigrants. It was the fact that he and his friends had a car, unlike the group she had originally planned to go out with that evening. Ten days later, in March 1946, Paul got engaged to Clara and won his wager. It would turn out to be a happy marriage, one that lasted until death's part of them more than forty years later.