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BK: So, they met in Tacoma when the boat landed. And then, at that time, was your father living in Wenatchee?

MH: Yes.

BK: And what was he doing at that time?

MH: He had a laundry at that time. And so, he took her there, 'cause he drove, too, because they had to have a delivery truck. And then she had my sister and my brother. The first three of the children were born about a year apart.

BK: So your, the eldest of the family is your sister?

MH: Uh-huh.

BK: And when was she born?

MH: Gee, I don't know, she was twelve years older. It would be twelve years... I should have figured it out...

BK: Okay, well, that's all right. And then, next was...

MH: Akira, and then there was Sho.

BK: Okay, and then, do you know about what time he was, what year he was born about? Was it about 19', 1919. Well, that doesn't really matter. And then, then who came next?

MH: Then there was, I believe they said a girl in between Sho -- I mean Ken and Ted, but it didn't live. And then Ken was born and there was another child between Ken, Ted and myself, I think is the way it went. Anyway, there were two that had died in Wenatchee, because we were all born there, most of them were raised there.

BK: So when were you born? What is your birthday?

MH: '26.

BK: 1926. And Ted --

MH: He's older.

BK: -- is the brother that's three years older, so he was born in 1923.

MH: And then, there was another, Ken was three years older. Then after that it went, let's see, first three, then three, and then one, one, one.

BK: Uh-huh. Okay.

MH: And all of the older three had Japanese names, and the younger three all had American names.

BK: Oh, I see.

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