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TI: So we, off camera we talked about your efforts to collect all this family history and to put together a family reunion in Los Angeles. So why are you doing this?

KK: Why? I'm the last of my family to be alive. And I feel that I have so much material about the family that I really need to share it with them, and so I'm trying to put things together.

TI: And how receptive is the next generation, the Sansei generation, to the fact that you have all this information and you're gonna make it available. What's their reception to this?

KK: I think they're very receptive. We'll find out after this. Our last reunion was about... it was in Salt Lake City, and it was five years ago, I think -- four years ago, no, five years ago -- and somehow my box of materials got lost, and I never received it. It was supposed to be mailed to me, and I felt really bad because I would have liked to have gone through that and, the material, but luckily there was, one of Raymond's nieces was in California when I was in California, and, with my daughter, and I had the material with me and she took it all and copied it. So wherever she is, wherever she stored it, there is everything that I had is copied somewhere. But she's not coming to this reunion. I was hoping she'd come to this reunion, but somehow she's gotten estranged from the family because when her father died none of us went to his funeral. But it happened at a very difficult time. Raymond was in the hospital having open heart surgery. I had just been to Salt Lake and I couldn't go back. It was just, timing was wrong.

TI: So, even though she has materials, she doesn't really feel compelled to share it right now with the rest of the family.

KK: No.

TI: But you're trying to pull it all together, though.

KK: Yes.

TI: And so are the last surviving...

KK: Of my family.

TI: Okay, so of the ten you're the last.

KK: I'm the last.

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