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MA: And a little bit about your mother. What was her name?

LS: Her name was Tokiye Marie Morikawa.

MA: And she was actually, you were telling me, born in Hawaii?

LS: In Hawaii. She was born in Hawaii.

MA: So her parents were the ones who came over Hawaii?

LS: Yes, uh-huh.

MA: That's interesting. Do you know what they were doing in Hawaii, what type of work?

LS: Well, my grandfather came (...) to Hawaii when he was seventeen years old, and he worked on a pineapple farm. And about the time that he married my grandmother, he became foreman. And then they got married and had my mom in Hawaii. And then she came, they all came here, oh, she must have been about nine, ten months old.

MA: Oh, okay. What was your mother like as a person? I'm just curious what her personality was like.

LS: She was quiet, she was quiet, but very, very pretty. She was a beautiful woman. In fact, they had a beauty contest and she took queen.

MA: Oh, wow.

LS: Uh-huh, yeah, and my grandmother was so proud, she was just hollering, "Tokiye, Tokiye," like that, you know. She was, she was really pretty.

MA: That's great. How many children were in your family?

LS: There was six of us.

MA: And where were you in terms of...

LS: I'm the oldest.

MA: Oh, the oldest.

LS: Uh-huh. And I'm the oldest on my mother's side, first grandchild of my grandparents.

MA: And what's the age range, I'm curious, of, like, you and then your youngest sibling?

LS: About thirteen years' difference.

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