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TL: When and where were you born?

AT: I was born 1924 in Hollywood, California, because my family lived there.

TL: And you mentioned that you had an older brother?

AT: Uh-huh.

TL: Was he also born in Hollywood?

AT: Yes, but he was sent to Japan, very small, young, maybe one year.

TL: Oh. And what was his name?

AT: Takeo.

TL: So Takeo actually was already in Japan before you?

AT: I think it was my grandmother took my brother and I back to Japan. And my mother's older sister who had lost her husband, she was a widow, so she decided that she could raise us if she get the money from America. So my mother keep sending her money, and my brother and I grew up with this aunt -- my mother's older sister.

TL: Let me just make sure I understood this. Takeo and yourself went to live with your aunt at the same time or he went before you did?

AT: No, same time. Yes.

TL: Okay. At same time. Okay.

AT: So Takeo and I grew up together until I returned to the United States.

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