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RP: How about your siblings, brothers and sisters? Where did you fall in the pecking order?

MN: Okay, besides my older half-sister, my oldest brother was born in 1921. And then came my sister born in '25.

RP: Can you give us their names, too?

MN: Okay, okay. Francis... full names? Japanese name? Francis Genichiro and then Alice Kumiko born in '23. Then a brother Starr Kunio. He had a different, he had a different (Japanese) name at birth but we changed it because they thought it was bad luck or something, his Japanese name. And he was born in '25. And then, then I came along. And then six years later I have my youngest brother, Sam. Oh, I didn't give my sister's name. Or did I? Okay. Then my youngest brother is Samuel Michiro, who was born in 1933. And...

RP: And other than you, who else is left in the family? Sam?

MN: Just Sam and me now. Starr died just before the war and he had, through an accident at school or something, he suffered epilepsy. And I think he had a heart attack when he was taking a bath one night. He was sixteen. So it happened just before the war. And then my sister Alice got TB while we were in Manzanar. And so she spent some time in the hospital there. When we were let out from camp she went straight to Hillcrest Sanitarium in La Crescenta and then to Olive View (Sanitarium) where she died in 1947 at age twenty-three. And then my older brother died five years ago in 2003.

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