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DG: So you were born in?

NS: I was born in Seattle.

DG: In 19...?

NS: 1909, and a few years after that -- and a year after that I had a sister and we went back to Japan. I must have been about three years old. And her intention was to leave the children in Japan and come back as a lot of the people used to do that. I think, prior to that, the first born brother had died and so it was just my sister and I that went to Japan. But her mother at that time said, "No," that the children belonged with their parents so take them back to the United States. And so that's why she brought us back. Also, at the same time my father's mother was single, and she bought her back, so I had a grandmother here in Seattle until she died.

DG: So then your father's family, was he the oldest or did he have brothers or sisters?

NS: He was the only son.

DG: The only son. Oh, then that makes more sense that his mother would come.

NS: So Mother, so Mother brought her probably as baby-sitter as well as...

DG: Sure.

NS: Mother's mother.

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