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EG: Had your father renounced his citizenship?

PT: No. No.

EG: He did not either?

PT: No, he had not.

EG: Of course, your mother...

PT: She never had her citizenship.

EG: She never could have had it.

PT: She never could have had it, until after the war.

EG: Right. So you were a divided family in that way, of necessity. You didn't have any choice in that.

PT: No, we didn't.

EG: But you had a choice and your dad.

PT: Yes.

EG: That's a very different family from most. The thing that you hear most is the...no, I'm wrong. Your father is Issei...

PT: No, no, he's Nisei.

EG: Your father is Nisei, and your mother is Issei.

PT: Yes.

EG: Yeah, that's right. That's more common than the other way around, isn't it? Where the woman...

PT: I think it depends though. There are some Issei men who married Nisei woman.

EG: Sure. It would go both ways.

PT: It would.

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