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TI: I think you, so you got married in 1959, did you have children?

RE: Yeah, a boy and a girl.

TI: And so do you recall when they were born?

RE: Well, my son was born when I was finishing in optometry. I had straight A's going into the fourth year, and I was gonna have two final exams, and I had to take my wife to the hospital 'cause he was being born, and that sort of screwed things up. But it didn't matter. Grades were irrelevant when you think about it.

TI: And your son's name?

RE: Jeff.

TI: So he was born, like, in the early '60s, it sounds like.

RE: Yeah.

TI: And then your daughter?

RE: Born three years later.

TI: And her name?

RE: Lori.

TI: And I think you mentioned earlier, you had grandchildren?

RE: No, I just have one granddaughter. Sorry, one granddaughter.

TI: And she's about ten.

RE: Ten.

TI: And her name is?

RE: Sophia.

TI: Sophia. So to end the, the interview, Sophia is still young, she's ten.

RE: Uh-huh. But she's showing interest. Because she invited Grandpa to come out and talk about taiko, and then she invited me again to talk about my wartime experience. And so, you know, it was only within this past year that she's expressed that kind of interest, who she is. She's part Dutch because my daughter-in-law's of Dutch background in Holland, Michigan. But she realizes that she wants to be more Japanese than Dutch. She said there's more to it. [Laughs] So that's interesting, yeah.

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