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MA: And how many, how many children were in your family?

CY: There were my older sister, my brother, five of us (living), but there were three that died, when they were small, during the influenza. In those days, they didn't have, they don't have the medicine they do now, no aspirin or anything like that. And in fact, my older brother, he had pneumonia, and they gave him an enema of coffee, you know, something warm to make the temperature go down, I guess, and then mustard plaster and stuff like that. It was real primitive.

MA: Would doctors come to your house when you got sick?

CY: I doubt there were house calls in those days.

MA: So then there were five children but three of them passed away when they were real young.

CY: Yeah, when they were young. Some died before I was born.

MA: So then there was two of you that, that grew up...

CY: There's only two left now.

MA: And were you the older one?

CY: My younger sister. Yeah, she's about nine years younger than I.

MA: And what's her name?

CY: Natsuko Matsushige, and she lives in Los Angeles.

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