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JS: So finally, in 1970, I figured, well, heck -- oh, before I jump that far, I got married in (1956)... oh, 1956. 'Cause I know I'm on fifty-(two) years now, is that right?

TI: Uh-huh, that'd be fifty-two years.

JS: Okay. That was, I remember 'cause it was Lincoln's birthday, and I got, no kids right away, but it took me two years. I thought there was something wrong, so I had to see the doctor, but they said no, it was. And so finally two years after that, I just got one in (1958), one in ('59).

TI: You mean 1958?

JS: ('58).

TI: No, you mean your first child. You were married in...

JS: Oh, '58, (yes), '58, that's right.

TI: Yeah, you were married in 1956.

JS: And '59, and then three years apart, my daughter came in '62, and then three years after that, my son, youngest one came in '65. And they're all doing good, 'cause my oldest boy's in Hawaii now, Maui, Hawaii, and he got two boys. And my second son, (Steven), he's not married, he's in Capitola, and my third child is Lori, and she was born in '62, she's got two child, boy (Charles) and a girl (Chelsea). And my youngest (Ronald), born in '65, he's got one child, a girl (Rachael). So I got five grandchildren.

TI: So let me, let me summarize this. So you had four children, your son, oldest one was Doug, second one was Steven, and then third was Lori, and then Ronald was the fourth?

JS: Fourth, (yes).

TI: And then you have five grandchildren, Doug has Matthew and Christopher, and Lori has Chelsea and Charles, and then Ronald has Rachael.

JS: That's right.

TI: Okay, so that's a nice family, nice size family.

JS: (Yes), they're all hakujin. [Laughs]

TI: You mean hapa?

JS: (Yes), you could call the kids hapa. 'Cause my... well, see, Doug's wife is, (...) grandma was Portuguese and grandfather was a Japanese. So I don't know what, that's one-eighth.

TI: Yeah, I don't know.

JS: So they did, then my daughter's married to a hakujin, and my youngest son is married to a hakujin, so they're hapa, I guess.

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