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TI: Okay, so they're in Seattle, your dad worked at the Seattle Bakery for a time, then they had a boarding house and then a restaurant. Let's talk about the children, because they had quite a few children.

BI: Yes. [Laughs]

TI: So why don't you tell me sort of the children, going from oldest to youngest, the children that they had.

BI: Well, they, first was twin girls, and then about three years later they had a son.

TI: Well, so let's go back to the twin girls, so what were their names?

BI: Hatsumi and Hatsuyo.

TI: Okay. And then after the twin girls, was next...

BI: Was Takeshi.

TI: Okay, so that was the first son. And then after Takeshi was...

BI: I think there was a Haruko.

TI: You said you think there's a Haruko, because...

BI: Yes, because she died in, during the epidemic, flu epidemic. She was about two years old when she passed away.

TI: And what year was that, the flu epidemic? It was 1918?

BI: Somewhere around there, uh-huh.

TI: I remember because, just because of all the information about the pandemic and the flus, I've read about that, so that was around then.

BI: Right, uh-huh.

TI: Okay, so Haruko died of the flu, and then after Haruko was...

BI: Hirotaka.

TI: Hirotaka, so that's another son.

BI: Son, uh-huh.

TI: And then after Hirotaka is...

BI: That was me.

TI: Okay, Fumiye, and then after you was...

BI: Sam, Sadayoshi.

TI: Sadayoshi?

BI: Uh-huh.

TI: Okay. And then after Sadayoshi is...

BI: Is Amy.

TI: And did she have a Japanese name?

BI: That's her name, Amy.

TI: So how would that be, how would you spell --

BI: Oh, we spelled it A-M-Y.

TI: Okay. So two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, eight children, and one died when she was...

BI: Yeah, uh-huh.

TI: I'm just curious, was it common for there to be twins? I don't hear too many about twins.

BI: They're unusual, very unusual.

TI: So did the, your older sisters sort of stand out because they were twins? Do you recall attention being placed on them because they were twins?

BI: I think so, uh-huh. Yes.

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