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MA: So you have two daughters.

TN: Uh-huh.

MA: Can you name your daughters and when they were born?

TN: Right, Stephanie, my oldest daughter, our first daughter, was born in 1960, and she also went to West High. And she married another Japanese boy, Stan Nakamura, and he's from Wyoming, and he was born and raised there. He has three brothers and they all married Salt Lake City girls. And I might add that Stan is extremely successful. He has an engineering firm, and the family loves to travel. He's taken the, the entire family -- they have two daughters -- to Japan and to Venice, and then to Amsterdam, and in just a couple of weeks they're going to go to Paris, oh, and also Hawaii, they've been there many times. But, and my daughter Stephanie is a nurse-practitioner, and she went to Long Beach College for her undergraduate degree, and then to Westminster College here in Salt Lake City for her nurse-practitioner. And she did that quite late in life, she's forty-seven, and I believe she did it when she was forty-five. And my granddaughter, Allie, their first child, she's sixteen, and we're very proud of her because she is a 2008 state girls golf individual champion, and she had a playoff with three girls, and the playoff lasted six holes and she prevailed, so we're very happy for her. And she also plays varsity basketball, although she's only 5'2". [Laughs] And my other, Stephanie's other daughter is Sarah, and she's a very beautiful girl, and she's fourteen, and she loves art like her grandpa, and she's a very good cook, and she plays basketball, too. And my other daughter, Susan, is married to Charlie Brown, and he's a fellow who was born in Munich, Germany, in an army family, but his family moved to Tooele, Utah, and they've lived there for thirty years, so he's like a native Utahn. And he's an executive with a mortgage company, and they have one biological son, Koji, who is eight, he just turned eight years old, and he's a very good baseball player, soccer player, and piano player, and our pride and joy. And then we have two girls, Mei Mei, who is six, and La La, who is four, and they both came from the People's Republic of China, and they were adopted in 2004 and 2006, I believe. And so that rounds out our family.

MA: Yeah, that's quite a family.

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