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TY: [Jpn.] Then, how did you contact the midwife? How did you find her?

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah. She is in Seattle. Since she is in Seattle, everybody knows her.

TY: [Jpn.] Only one?

MK: [Jpn.] Two or three. Probably two people. I am not sure.

TY: [Jpn.] Do you remember her name?

MK: [Jpn.] Well, what was her name? That midwife. I wonder if anyone at that time is still alive now. I wonder if all of them are dead.

TY: [Sneezes] [Jpn.] Excuse me.

MK: [Jpn.] Probably nobody is alive.

TY: [Jpn.] Then when you lived in Sunnydale...

MK: [Jpn.] Oh...

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] Oh, Mrs. Kodama might know.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] Of Sunnydale.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] You know Mrs. Kodama, don't you? Yes. She must know.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Eng.] Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] Then, you had four children in Sunnydale. Were they all assisted by the same midwife?

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah. Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] All by the same midwife.

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

TY: [Jpn.] Did you contact her by telephone?

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah, that's right. We must have called her. If you didn't, she wouldn't have known.

TY: [Jpn.] The midwife has a hard job. She has to go visit many people.

MK: [Jpn.] Well, she can drive a car.

TY: [Jpn.] Oh, I see.

MK: [Jpn.] The midwife can drive.

TY: [Jpn.] Oh, so she comes by car.

MK: [Eng.] Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Jpn.] She goes everywhere.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Eng.] Uh-huh.

TY: [Jpn.] Then she must have known many people.

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] Then, when a baby is about to be born, you call her and she comes around the due date...

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

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Jpn.] And the midwife knows everybody's due dates because she goes around.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Jpn.] So she must know that. Uh-huh.

TY: [Jpn.] So how far into (the pregnancy) did you work? At the greenhouse?

MK: [Jpn.] Well, probably till I got abdominal pain.

TY: [Jpn.] You couldn't take time off.

MK: [Jpn.] It's too cruel to make me work till the birth pain.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Eng.] Uh-huh.

TY: [Jpn.] Did you reduce the amount of work?

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah. You notice the change. So at that time, I think I called up by telephone.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] I think my husband called up.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Eng.] Uh-huh.

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