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Title: Seiko Edamatsu Interview
Narrator: Seiko Edamatsu
Interviewer: Megan Asaka
Location: Spokane, Washington
Date: June 7, 2006
Densho ID: denshovh-eseiko-01-0022

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MA: So you said you had four children.

SE: Uh-huh, four girls.

MA: Four daughters.

SE: Uh-huh.

MA: What are their names?

SE: Phyllis, Patricia, Pamela and Priscilla.

MA: And what, when was your first daughter born, Phyllis?

SE: April 5, 1945, because it's 4-5-45. [Laughs]

MA: Easy to remember?

SE: Easy to remember, uh-huh. And she's the one that lives in Delaware.

MA: And what are your other daughters doing? So Phyllis lives in Delaware.

SE: Patricia, uh-huh, is in Pasco, and she works for the DOE.

MA: The Department of Energy?

SE: Uh-huh. And she used to recruit scientists to work at Hanford, and she would talk to people all over the world. And so it was very interesting work. She, she really enjoys her work.

MA: And then there's Pam, your...

SE: Is living next door and married, and she works, she and her husband both work out at Eastern.

MA: Eastern Washington University?

SE: University, uh-huh.

MA: And then Priscilla is your youngest, right?

SE: Youngest. And she lives in Seattle, in Kirkland, and she's got a new job, and I'm not quite sure what she does now. She just recently started a new job. She was working at a place where they had exercise equipment, and people were, I think, renting. I don't know. They were selling, I guess, exercise equipment. The pay wasn't enough, and so...

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