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Title: Ben Uyeno Interview
Narrator: Ben Uyeno
Interviewer: Dee Goto
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: June 1, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-uben-01-0039

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DG: Okay. So anyway, your grandchildren, how many grandchildren do you have?

BU: I got (six). (...)

DG: [Six] grandchildren.

BU: Three at Takis'.

DG: And then how many children?

BU: Two at my other daughter's and one at the pediatrician.

DG: Okay. Your children are who?

BU: Huh?

DG: Your children are who? We didn't talk about your children.

BU: Three who I live with --

DG: Your oldest one is a son.

BU: Yeah.

DG: And then he was born what? 1949.

BU: No, it's a daughter. She's thirteen or fourteen now.

DG: No, no, no. We're talking about your children. You were married in '49.

BU: No, my children, I had four.

DG: Okay. So, you were married in '49, and then you had a...

BU: And then I had '51.

DG: '51 was a...

BU: '51 was a boy and the other one, next one, is also boy.

DG: And then two girls.

BU: The second one, the oldest, is a doctor, pediatrician.

DG: And then you have two girls.

BU: Yeah, I have two girls. Both are nurses, both are cardiac nurses.

DG: Is that right?

BU: Yeah.

DG: Well, Ruth was, your wife, was also a...

BU: Yeah, for the first year she helped at the office, but other than that she has not worked because we didn't want the kids to be without supervision. They become good taxicab drivers and chauffeurs to different things. So Ruth only worked the first year.

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