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Title: Mako Nakagawa Interview
Narrator: Mako Nakagawa
Interviewer: Lori Hoshino
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: May 27, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-nmako-01-0004

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LH: So your parents got married and the kids come along and how many kids are in your family?

MN: Four girls.

LH: Four girls.

MN: Are you taping now? Oh, are you taping now. You sneaky people. [Laughs]

LH: So where do you fall?

[Interruption]

LH: So you have four sisters?

MN: Uh-huh. Oh, well, three sisters. There's four girls.

LH: There's four girls and where do you fall?

MN: I'm three, number three.

LH: You're number three. What are your sisters' names and...

MN: The oldest one is, her name is Kazuko. They called her Kazzie. We in the family call her Kai so she got all kind of names. [Laughs] And then the second one is Nobie, Nobue really. We call her Nobie. I'm Masako really. No one ever calls Masako. My parents called me Mako. I guess when I was a little kid I called myself Mako so I've been Mako all my life, and the youngest one is Minkie, Midori.

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