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FK: So when were you born and where were you born?

TM: Pardon?

FK: When were you born and where were you born?

TM: I was born in Bainbridge Island on Day Road West there, next to Suyematsu's farm. They used to... there's another farm there named, people named Krauss, whose property we rented from. Shig was born there, and another... Mort wasn't born there, but I was and one sibling below me was born there, and then Shig and my two brothers were also born but they were born in Winslow.

FK: So what year were you were born?

TM: Pardon?

FK: What year was it when you were born?

TM: 1916.

FK: Okay. So was your, did your family go directly into farming? Did your father go directly into farming when he came here?

TM: No, I don't think so. He must have worked around and found out a few things about it, how they did farming around here, I guess. I didn't think he got in it, just... because my mother said she worked in the laundry or something, younger days, and then they went to dig potatoes after they were married. They dug potatoes by hand in Mount Vernon. You didn't have no potato diggers in them days, I guess.

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