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TI: Okay, so I'm gonna slow down a little bit and go back 'cause, so we're, we already jumped to your father, but let's go back to your grandfather and how he met your grandmother.
MH: Oh, they met in Japan.
TI: Met in Japan, then they came over and they left your mother in Japan.
MH: Yeah.
TI: And so when did your mother come to the United States?
MH: In 1917, or 1918. 1918.
TI: So she was about how old? She was about eighteen, nineteen years old when she, when she came?
MH: Yeah. About eighteen, yeah. And, but my mother, my grandfather and grandmother traveled back and forth to Japan, so my mother was the oldest of five children.
TI: And they all, all the children lived in Japan?
MH: Yeah, they were all born in Japan. I mean, my grandmother would go back to Japan to have a baby or, but they came, after a while they all decided they should live in the United States, so they came.
TI: Now, I'm curious, was there a reason why she wanted to have her children born in Japan?
MH: I don't know. Maybe they trusted the doctors.
TI: Okay. And what was your mother's name?
MH: Tamano Morita, or Minami.
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