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TI: So 1911 was when you were born... so I want to ask you about your siblings. Did you have any older sisters or brothers?

KK: Yeah. I had an older sister. She's three years older than I am.

TI: And what was her name?

KK: Shizue.

TI: Shizue. And then other siblings, what other siblings?

KK: Oh, yeah. Then after, well, she had a miscarriage after, after she was born, and then I'm the third pregnancy.

TI: Okay. And then after you?

KK: After me there's George.

TI: And how much younger is George than you?

KK: George was a year and a half. He was born in June and I was September. So about a year and nine months, I guess you'd call it. Younger than... and then after George, she lost a boy. He was born 1915, and he was three years old. He had, infection of the mastoid gland was going around, and that traveled to his brain and he died. So he didn't last much longer. And after that was Miyoko. She was, my older sister named her Rose, which she didn't like. And then the last one was Arthur, Arthur Saburo.

TI: Okay, so let me see if I got this right. So the oldest was Shizue, then there was a miscarriage, then you were the third birth, Kiyoko, then George, then there was another brother, but he died when he was three.

KK: That was Roy.

TI: Roy. And then Miyoko was next, Rose, and then Arthur Saburo was last.

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