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MU: This is an interview with Mitsue Kono Matsui. We're doing the interview in Seattle and I am the interviewer with Gary Otake helping me, and my name is Marvin Uratsu. So, first off, Mitzi, where were you born?

MM: Well, I was born in San Francisco.

MU: How many brothers and sisters did you have?

MM: There were six of us in the family.

MU: How many boys and how many girls?

MM: Four boys and two girls.

MU: Let's see, I know that one of the brothers is gone but how many are living now?

MM: There are three brothers that are gone, my eldest, second brother and one brother that died in infancy, so there are three of us left at this time.

MU: That's one brother and one sister?

MM: One brother and sister, yes.

GO: What year were you born?

MM: Oh, must you know that?

GO: Oh, you don't have to...

MU: We don't have to ask the ladies. [Laughs]

MM: Around the time of the influenza epidemic so you'll know. I actually am a transplant from San Francisco, born and educated there.

MU: Yeah, okay.

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