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SY: Okay, so maybe now's the time to go through the, your siblings, talk about each, how many siblings there were.

PM: Well, Mom and Dad had nine children. I'm the oldest, and I was born in 1929, and then Mary Jane Yasuko was born in 1930, and then Betty Emiko was born, probably 1932, and then Akiko Evelyn, Evelyn Akiko -- we all had English names and Japanese names -- she was born a couple years after. And then Arlene Chiyeko, so she was the fifth one. And then when we went to camp, Victor Katsuji was born, 1942, and then Phyllis Keiko was born in camp as well. After camp, then there were, let's see, three more, two more?

SY: Two more.

PM: Yeah, Susan Tomiko and Sharon Teruko.

SY: Who is me.

PM: Yes.

SY: That's a good ending to that story. And I'm, you mentioned that we all had Japanese names and American names.

PM: Right.

SY: Do you remember why? Or did...

PM: I think that was the thing to do in those days, just to show that you had some Japanese in you. And they tried to use names that had some meaning with the older people, so like Emiko, I don't know where that came from. Mary Jane Yasuko, Yasuko came from Baachan on our mom's side. Her name was Yasu.

SY: I see. So they paid tribute to their parents.

PM: Right.

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