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TY: [Jpn.] Then among your family members, your father, an uncle and his wife came to work in the U.S., didn't they?

MK: [Eng.] Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] So, you lived with your grandpa since six years old. Did you think you were going to the U.S. someday?

MK: [Eng.] No.

TY: [Eng.] No?

MK: [Eng.] No, I like it with my grandpa, so I never think about America.

TY: [Jpn.] Didn't you want to go and live with your father and mother?

MK: [Eng.] No.

TY: [Jpn.] No?

MK: [Eng.] No.

TY: [Jpn.] Did you miss your father and mother?

MK: [Eng.] No, because my grandpa so nice, so I never think, I never think America. Uh-huh.

TY: [Jpn.] All right. Your brother was staying at your mother's niece's, wasn't he?

MK: [Eng.] Yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] I suppose you didn't see him very often.

MK: [Eng.] Oh, once in awhile, that's all.

TY: [Eng.] Yeah.

MK: [Eng.] Because far away so, uh-huh.

TY: [Jpn.] Weren't you lonely? Because you were with your grandpa?

MK: [Eng.] No, I don't think so, because lots of friends all over there you know, so, uh-huh. Fine.

TY: [Jpn.] Did your father or mother write to you?

MK: [Eng.] No, I never see.

TY: [Eng.] Yeah.

MK: [Eng.] Maybe my grandpa, that's my mother's, mother's father... I think they take care everything.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Eng.] Uh-huh. That's why I never lonely or nothing. Yeah. Fine. They take care me too sometime. Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] Then did you write a letter to your father and mother?

MK: [Eng.] No, I never write any letter or nothing. Because they never give to me either.

TY: [Jpn.] I see. Didn't that make you lonesome?

MK: [Eng.] No.

TY: [Jpn.] Because your grandpa took care of you well.

MK: [Eng.] Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] All right. Well, were you sixteen? When your grandpa passed away.

MK: [Jpn.] Yes. That's right.

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