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Title: Yone Bartholomew Interview I
Narrator: Yone Bartholomew
Interviewer: Tracy Lai
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: May 1, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-byone-01-0004

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TL: How many other brothers and sisters do you have from your birth parents?

YB: At the time Mother and Father came to America, they had left behind two children... a daughter, two daughters. And then I was the first born here, of which there was four girls and four boys. So that made eight here and two in Japan, that would have been ten.

TL: Wow.

YB: At present, there is only four of us left. A younger sister and I have two younger brothers.

TL: Did the two that had been left in Japan, did they eventually rejoin the family?

YB: No, because they were married and established there and they eventually passed away in Japan.

TL: Oh, okay. Oh, I meant in their younger years, once, once they --

YB: No, they were with gran, the grandparents.

TL: Okay and they just stayed there with that part of the family.

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