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DG: Okay. So now we're going to go way back. I just want to get some background on you and your before the war even. Tell me where you were born, and what your childhood was like?

FH: I was born in Winslow... what do you call that road, Nakata, where the Nakatas live?

DG: I'm bad with roads. [Laughs]

FH: Well, anyway, I was born in Winslow, is what I heard. 1911, January 21st.

DG: And tell me about your --

FH: I had one, two, three older sisters: Shigeko, Fujio and Nobuko. I guess Mother had enough, she didn't -- girls, anyway. Anyway, I was born. So when I was five, we all went to Japan. My sister, oldest sister Shigeko was already in Japan taking care of her aunt. And we joined them, I don't know how many years we stayed. I went to school until second grade in Japan. And they had a quota that they can not take three, but three back to the U.S. when my father came after us. So I was left behind with my, myself and another sister, but she, I don't know what she died of, but she died in Japan, so I was left alone, and I came back with my cousin. And came back to Fletcher's Bay where met my... Fletcher's Bay where, this house, and then started one-house grade school in Manzanita. And we walked to Manzanita every day and we'd walk back. It was, there was a one, one teacher to eighth grade. My friend, I'm still good friends with her, she taught me the difference between "H" and "N". H had a longer stem than N. I still remember that so well. Well, we're still good friends with Shig, she lives in West Seattle now and she's using a wheelchair, but I still talk to her on the phone quite often.

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