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TI: Good, okay so 1920 your father returns to Japan and marries your mother. So tell me, what was your mother's name?

BS: Sadako.

TI: And what can you tell me about her family?

BS: She lived nearby from my father's place in Hiroshima-ken and that's all I know.

TI: So your father and mother come back to the United States, or your father comes back and your mother comes to the United States, so what did they do when they got to the United States?

BS: My father was a haul man, person with a truck who went to Japanese vegetable farmers and hauled their products to the wholesale market in Los Angeles.

TI: So, so he had, like, a truck and he would just go from place to place and do this.

BS: Right.

TI: And, and let's talk about the family in terms of siblings right now, because you had several brothers and sisters. So from the beginning, or the oldest, can you tell me your brothers and sisters?

BS: My oldest brother is Tom, Tomomi. My second brother is Katsumi, and next is my sister Kiyoko and then me, and then I had a younger sister named Yuriko.

TI: Good, and your oldest brother, how much older than you?

BS: Oh, two, four, about six years, I guess.

TI: Okay, so it was like a two year difference between you.

BS: Right.

TI: Good. Okay, so that helps me, so in birth order you were the fourth, and then you mentioned your sister, younger sister died at a young age?

BS: No, she died, oh, I don't know, eight years ago or so.

TI: Okay, so, so... okay, so she's died. And are your older siblings alive?

BS: Yes.

TI: 'Cause you were born in 1929, so you are, you just turned eighty-one?

BS: Yes.

TI: Okay. Good.

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