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RP: Let's talk about your siblings. Can you give us them in order of their birth?

HN: My oldest brother was Tsuyoshi George Nakano, and he's five years older than me.

RP: Can you spell that, Tsuyoshi for us?

HN: T-S-U-Y-O-S-H-I.

RP: Okay.

HN: Tsu-yo-shi. In Japanese "Tsu" is T-S-U.

RP: Tsu. Okay, and then who's next?

HN: Fumi Nakano. My older sister, she was two years older than me. And then my youngest sister was Hideko, H-I-D-E-K-O.

RP: Hideko.

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RP: And you were the youngest? I'm sorry, you were the...

HN: I was the third one.

RP: Third one, okay. And, of your siblings, how many are still alive besides you?

HN: All of 'em are gone, my mother, father, my brothers and sisters are all gone. I'm the only one left.

RP: Did any of your father's and mother's family also come to the United States?

HN: No. Nobody else from my mother's and father's families. They're all in Japan. They all passed away in Japan.

RP: So your --

HN: There isn't one living anymore in Japan.

RP: Your father and your mother were the only people from their families to come to this country?

HN: That's correct, yeah.

RP: Okay.

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