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RP: Well, let's meet the rest of the family. You were the oldest, firstborn?

SK: Yes, I'm the oldest. Sally is the next one, she's two years younger. I may be off on the age thing, but Sally next, and then Joanne, I think she's two years younger than Sally. And then Eleanor, I think she's one year but I'm not sure, then Shirley, and then Michael, and then Fay.

RP: And Michael was born at Manzanar?

SK: Yes. He was born... you know, I can't remember exactly when it was, I mean, after we got there, but it couldn't have been too much longer, I mean, if we had only been there three years, I'm going to say at the most a year after or something like that. Wait a minute, he was born in... he would have been, hold on, he would have been sixty-seven right now. He was born on, that I remember, tenth of October, and he would have been sixty-seven. He was exactly, I mean, about ten years younger than I was.

RP: And Fay was born in Seabrook?

SK: Yeah, Seabrook.

RP: And so you ended up, well, you had a younger brother, but at the time that you were growing up, you were the only boy.

SK: Yes, yes.

RP: So how did that work? To your advantage, or not?

SK: You know, I can't remember if it was an advantage or a disadvantage. I just don't remember anything being, you know, where I had to be the male thing or what. I don't think there was anything like that. Most of it probably was a pretty good experience, I'm pretty sure, I can't remember anything being real bad. We probably had our ups and downs, but we all got along pretty well.

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