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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-01-0003

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AI: Let's back up a little bit. I wanted to ask you, when were you born?

FH: When?

AI: When?

FH: 1911, Winslow, Washington. Bainbridge Island.

AI: And so, at that time when you were born, your oldest sister was in Japan, with her aunt, and you had these two older sisters?

FH: Uh-huh. But they were in States.

AI: They were in the States, and then you were born. And then, who came after you?

FH: What?

AI: Who came after you? You had another...

FH: We all went back together with my parents.

AI: When was that when you went back to Japan?

FH: Huh?

AI: When was that, that you went back to Japan?

FH: Oh, when? I heard I was a five-year-old, or something like that.

AI: And so that's when, you say you were left behind?

FH: When they were coming back. We all stayed there, oh 'bout four or five years, I guess -- 'cause, I went to school there, until third grade.

LH: Until third grade?

FH: Then came back.

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