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JS: So your father leased land and then did, who helped him work on the farm? Did he hire workers?

TS: Well, yeah, I guess that's how it is. They work hard themselves, and my mother was out on the farm too. It was no big acreage like they do now, smaller acreage, so...

JS: Do you know what size acreage they had before the war?

TS: No, I don't know. It wasn't very much.

JS: And what did they grow?

TS: Well, he had tomatoes, always tomatoes. Yeah.

DG: And did, did he have to keep moving because his lease would be over?

TS: Yeah, the lease would be up, and then they didn't want to plant this tomato over and over. You can't plant the same crop over and over in the same place, so he'd have to go look for another land. Yeah.

DG: So he didn't try asparagus or anything.

TS: No, no, no, he didn't... it was always tomatoes.

DG: Toshiko, were you the oldest?

TS: Yeah, here. After my sister came from Japan, well, she's the oldest. But here, I was the oldest of the two brothers.

DG: And do you know where you were born? Were you born at home with a midwife? Or...

TS: I must've been, 'cause I was born in Clarksburg.

DG: Do you remember when your brothers were born?

TS: No.

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