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After graduating, she and her husband worked in Taiwan for a few years, until her husband came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to earn a PhD in chemical engineering. He then got a job in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Kwen and her three children joined him in Tulsa in 1961. The family moved to Los Angeles in 1965 when Kwen's husband was hired as a professor at UCLA. There, Kwen studied computer programming and re-entered the workforce as a programmer for Signal Oil. She and her family moved to Houston in 1972 when Signal Oil moved their headquarters to Houston, and later she was hired at Getty Oil (Texaco) where she worked until age 75. She still resides in Houston by herself, her only remaining child is Harriet, who lives in Boston. 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