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RM: So you've mentioned your siblings. Could you just tell us where your siblings are, their names and approximately when they were born, if you don't have the exact dates?

GO: My oldest, she was ninety-five when she passed. And my next one was, she's ninety-four now, she's the only one still alive. And in between her and my brother, I had a sister that was adopted in Japan, which I found out later on, but I never did see her. And I don't know what her age is. Well, in between my second sister and third. And then my oldest brother, he was a year and a half older than I was. Then me, and then Soup, he's about a year and a half behind me, too.

RM: Okay, so you were the second to the youngest, then, and Soup was the youngest.

GO: Yeah, Soup was youngest.

RM: And what was your oldest sister's name?

GO: Fusaye. I think I gave you the pamphlet of the pictures of the name, try to get the name of the people in the picture.

KL: You did. That's what I was telling you.

RM: Oh, okay. Excellent, okay.

GO: So anyway, she couldn't get all the names. Then we asked Bo and all that if they knew any person, but they knew a few, but that's about it.

RM: Okay, so Fusaye's the oldest, and then...

GO: Tami. And then the one that was in Japan and then Mas and me. Wait a minute, in between there someplace I had another sister, passed away before she was one. So I don't know where she fit in.

RM: Do you know the story of your sister who was adopted in Japan?

GO: Well, like I said, I never did see her. She was adopted, and later on my dad went over there to see if she wanted to come back. But no, she says, "If you want to take me back, you're going to take me with you, adoptive mother," so she stayed.

RM: So she was in Japan with her adopted mother.

GO: Uh-huh. I guess the father was there, too, I don't know exactly. And then she had, I think, five kids. And then one of them came over here to visit, not visit, but work as, doing some gardening work, but that's the only one I knew, my sister.

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