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SY: So who would you say had the greatest influence on you, growing up?

MN: Well, I think Pearl influenced everybody. And then my sister, Misao, took care of me when I was an infant, I guess, because she had just come from Japan. And then soon after, my mother had Connie. And she, she had to go to the hospital when she had Connie. So then she took care of Connie. And I think Misao took care of me.

SY: She had to go to the hospital...?

MN: To deliver...

SY: Oh, for delivery.

MN: Because everybody else was born with a midwife.

SY: So she got to go to the hospital, as if it were a little bit more of a luxury?

MN: Well, she had to go because she had -- there was a problem birth, I guess.

SY: Oh, there was a problem. What happened?

MN: I don't know. Connie got born in the hospital. [Laughs]

SY: I see.

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