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JA: And can you give me your memories of what it was like during your first pregnancy? Did you have to, did you continue to work on the farm?

MH: Oh, yes. I worked 'til the last day, when the poor little Les... that he was ready to be born, and it was the last day and he rushed me to the hospital at eight o'clock in the morning. And I worked 'til the very, very last day working out in the tomato field and everything else. And nobody can believe it, but that's the way it was. We had to work, as long as we can do it on our two feet.

JA: So unlike your mother who had a midwife when you were born, you went to a hospital.

MH: I went to the hospital, yes. We went to the Kirkland Hospital. That was the only hospital we had on the Eastside at that time, and my doctor was a Bellevue doctor, a very good doctor, and so he took all his patients over to Kirkland. And I think all the Bellevue people who had children, that's where they went, the Niseis.

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