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TI: When growing up as a boy, you mentioned that you were, when you were born you were living right off of Yesler. Growing up as a boy, was that pretty much where you lived or did you live someplace else?

FF: No, we -- yeah, I don't really remember living there at all. I mean, I know that I was born there, but my first recollection of a residence in Seattle was on East Spruce Street between Fourteenth and Fifteenth, and we lived in a four-plex. And the four families that lived there were all, they all knew each other before they came over here. They're all from the same city in Japan. And so we... one of them, one of the families was just a couple. Their name was Tokuda and he went to school with my mother, this fellow did. And...

TI: And this was back in Japan that they went to school?

FF: Yeah, yeah, back in Japan before they both immigrated here. Yeah, this... yeah, and then the other families were, well, the Tokuda's parents lived there. I don't know if you remember George Tokuda but he used to have a drugstore here. In fact, there's still a drugstore called Tokuda Drug, I guess. But he was the father of Kip Tokuda and, and... what was her name?

TI: I think, Tama Tokuda?

FF: Tama, yeah. The wife of, I mean, the husband of Tama Tokuda.

EG: How many were there in your family, how many brothers or sisters?

FF: I had one brother and one sister. I had an older sister and a younger brother. The older one was three years older and the younger one was three years younger. [Laughs]

EG: And you're in the middle.

FF: Yes.

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