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Title: Fumiko Hayashida Interview
Narrator: Fumiko Hayashida
Interviewers: Lori Hoshino (primary), Alice Ito (secondary)
Location: Bainbridge Island, Washington
Date: March 16, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-hfumiko-01-0011

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LH: Okay, so, the two Hayashida brothers married the two Nishinaka sisters. Did you get married the same year?

FH: (No. The oldest was married, had three children.)

LH: Where did you live after you got married?

FH: Oh we lived together awhile, one house.

LH: The two families lived together in one house? Okay, where was that?

FH: Island center, Bainbridge Island. House is still there.

LH: Now, was this Hayashida property that you lived on?

FH: Uh-huh.

LH: Okay.

FH: We had fifty acres other part of the Island, no home there.

LH: Were you also farming strawberries here?

FH: Uh-huh.

LH: Okay. When did the kids come along? Let's see, you had...

FH: I had two. They were small.

LH: The first was Neal?

FH: Uh-huh.

LH: And then, Natalie?

FH: Yeah.

LH: And then your sister and brother-in-law, how many children were in their family?

FH: Let me see, Tommy, five, five.

LH: Five? So, in one household, you had...

FH: Yeah. The youngest, what, she had 'nother child after she (my sister) came back.

LH: It looks like you had seven children in one household.

FH: Uh-huh. Lots of fun.

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