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AI: So do you know how your parents met, or how their marriage came about?

WW: They met... I'm not quite sure how they met. All I know is that the, well, the community, farming community and so forth there, out there, or the Japanese community, was generally pretty condensed, they kept in touch with each other pretty much, so apparently he met my mother that way. Somehow. [Laughs]

AI: And so about when did they get married?

WW: They got married in 19-something. 1931, I believe.

AI: And then tell me about your family. Let's see. You were born in 1935.

WW: Yes.

AI: Did you have brothers and sisters?

WW: I had, my first sister was born around 1932, but she died in infancy from pneumonia, I believe. My second sister was born in 1934, and then, then I was born, of course, in 1935. I have a brother that was born in 1943, he was born in Minidoka.

AI: So that was later.

WW: That was later, right, right.

AI: Well, so tell me a little bit about what you remember, some of your earliest memories. Like maybe your, your childhood home. What, what did your home look like, what was your neighborhood like?

WW: Back in Kent?

AI: Right.

WW: Well, my memory of Kent is pretty vague, but I am reminded of what it was like sometimes if I look at some of the movie pictures that my dad took. I know we, my, had cousins that were in the area at the time, and I remember playing with them. Had a neighbor when we lived in Kent, next door, that his name was Jack Smith, that I used to play with. He was my best friend at the time. As far as school goes, I, 'course, went to grade school in Kent.

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