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RP: Share with us your, the names of your siblings, and if you can recall the dates that they were born, starting with the oldest.

GK: Let's see. Let's see, my oldest brother was Floyd Hajime, and I think he was born... let's see, September, must have been September (26), 1914. And then my brother Sam Masatoshi was born in January, I think January (23), let's see... 1917. And then my sister Evelyn Etsuko, she was born in November (28th), I think, 1919. My sister Grace Sadami was March the 12th, 1923. My brother Tom Takao is, was born in December 20, 1927. And then I was born, and then I have a younger sister, Bessie Setsuko, was born February 20, 1934. And then Jeanette Yaeko, who was born October 1, 1936, and then I have a sister who is now deceased, her, she was May Sakiko, she was born May 12, 1940.

RP: Quite a --

GK: A spread, isn't there?

RP: -- large discrepancy in age.

GK: Well, there's, there's four deceased in there. So my mother actually had thirteen children, but there were nine, nine of us.

RP: And Frank was sharing his large family of twelve, and he said that there were kind of groupings of, depending around the age. Was that the same for you?

GK: It's kind of, yes. It's like two separate families, the older ones and then I kind of am in the middle. I kind of teeter back and forth because I want to be younger with my sisters, and I like to have fun. And then I'm, and then I like to be a little more dignified, and a little -- [laughs] -- and be more like my older sisters and my brother. So I kind of, kind of teeter between. But I can do that, you know. I try.

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