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MN: Okay, we're gonna go back on the videotape. Now, Henry, you were delivered by a sanbasan, and her name was Mukai-san.

HF: Yes.

MN: And all your siblings were delivered by Mukai-san.

HF: Yes.

MN: I'm gonna go down the list of your siblings starting with you, and tell me if I'm wrong. Henry, you're the oldest, you were born in Fruitland. Then Frank, also born in Fruitland, then Tomiko, also born in Fruitland, Jimmy, also born in Fruitland, George, born in Mandeville Canyon, Lily, born in Pacific Palisades, and Willie, born in Santa Monica. Is that correct?

HF: Yes.

MN: And then on average, was everybody about two years apart?

HF: Approximately, yes.

MN: Henry, what was your birth name?

HF: Kazuo.

MN: And how did you get that name?

HF: Well, parents put it there.

MN: Are you named after a grandparent?

HF: Not that I know of.

MN: How did you get the name "Henry"?

HF: The name Henry was on the end of one of my father's dictionary. That's how I picked up the name Henry, but I don't know when that happened.

MN: So you were very young when you got the name Henry. Did your parents call you Kazuo or Henry?

HF: Kazuo.

MN: Now, growing up, it sounds like you had a typical farm life. You lived in a cottage in Fruitland. There was another building that had a square ofuro, and then another building that was a outhouse.

HF: Yeah.

MN: And that was just basically a hole in the ground, the outhouse was.

HF: Yeah.

MN: You ate gohan, rice, every day?

HF: Yes.

MN: And even for breakfast you had ochazuke with tsukemono?

HF: Yeah.

MN: And lunch was usually onigiri with umeboshi or tsukemono?

HF: Yeah.

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