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TI: I now want to go back and ask you about all your brothers and sisters, so can we go down the list and you could tell me all your brothers and sisters?

MK: I have an older sister.

TI: And what was her name?

MK: Yuki.

TI: Okay.

MK: And then an older brother that, the one who, it's Tsuruo. And his name is King, they used to call him King.

TI: And he died of (heart failure).

MK: He just died. After he was eight-eight.

TI: Okay, so just recently, eighty-eight.

MK: And then I have a sister, Jessie. And she was born in a hospital, so she doesn't have a Japanese name. And she's ninety-three. My oldest sister is ninety-seven. She's still living.

TI: Okay, wow.

MK: And my, Jessie is still living and she's ninety-three. And then my brother Fred Kiyoshi.

TI: Okay.

MK: And he's ninety-one. Then I had Billy, Waichiro his name was, and he would've, he would be two years older than me. And then me. And I will be eighty-eight this year.

TI: Okay.

MK: Then my mother didn't have any children for six years, and then she had one year every year for four years. So I had a brother George, the one that died, spinal meningitis. Then I had a brother Tom, who is a doctor in Calgary. So Tom is a Japanese name and a Caucasian name. Then came Kenichi, Kenneth. He's the one that got killed by...

TI: The car.

MK: A drunken lady. And then I have a kid sister who's ten years younger than me, and her name is Sueko Bernice. And she will be seventy-eight this year.

TI: So there were ten kids and --

MK: In twenty years.

TI: And two died quite young, younger.

MK: Yes, they're both nine years old when they died.

TI: Then other than that you just had your other brother who died? King?

MK: My, in fact, two brothers died very recently. My brother Billy just passed away. He had aneurysm. And my brother King, he had a heart problem, but he lived 'til he was eighty-eight.

TI: But still pretty --

MK: And he lived in Nova Scotia.

TI: But your sisters and Fred --

MK: All my sisters are living.

TI: Yeah, so I guess your grandfather did a good job when he found a, your mother.

MK: My mother. My mother lived 'til she was seventy-nine. And my father died at fifty-six.

TI: Yeah, but going back to your grandfather, who was looking for somebody who had a family history of long life.

MK: That's right, the genes, or the, we talk about genes now.

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