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TI: Okay. And let's talk about, you were born in Pasadena.

JK: Yeah, all of us, all the family children except my sister Kichan were born in Pasadena.

TI: Was it Kichan or Yoshiko?

JK: Yoshiko's the oldest.

TI: Right. And she was born in Pasadena?

JK: Yes.

TI: Okay.

JK: And then, Yoshiko and then the next sister is Aiko, they were born in Pasadena. And Kichan was born in Brawley, California. My dad moved down to Imperial Valley for about a year or two.

TI: I see.

JK: Then he moved back to Pasadena, and then my brother Bob, and then myself. So what is that? There's six of us.

TI: Well, and one more sister, Haruyo?

JK: Haruyo was also born in Pasadena.

TI: So there's six of you, so four older sisters, then your brother Bob, and then you.

JK: Yeah, there's six, and then, six, yeah.

TI: You were the youngest.

JK: There were two more children born, and one of 'em was just, I guess, stillborn, but one of them was a young boy. And his remains are actually, there's a burial plot for him in Pasadena. I just found out about that from my cousin.

TI: And where was he in the birth order?

JK: He had to be somewhere like the second or the third child, okay? Let's see, Yo was 1916 and Aiko was 1919, so I think, I would imagine he was in there between them somewhere.

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