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SG: So your parents, sounds like they pushed certain values for their children?
BO: Oh, yeah. You must do this, must do that. And you know like religion, you got to go Buddhist.
SG: So how many brothers and sisters do you have?
BO: I think about seven and five, seven boys and five girls.
SG: And where were you among those?
BO: Well see, the oldest one is different mother, then comes Jack and Hattie and me. I'm the third one on this mother.
SG: So did your mom raise those, the other kids from the first wife also?
BO: The first wife is the one that they called her back to help out and take care the kids. I said that they called her back to help out take care the kids, and she was wild, among the men, playing around, then finally got married to Matt Takaki.
SG: So when you were growing up, it was just three of you; is that right?
BO: You mean the kids?
SG: Yeah.
BO: They went one after another right straight down the line.
SG: So you say you have a brother and a sister?
BO: Oh, yeah. My brother next one to me is Tom. He's in New Orleans now. And next one right after that is Henry. And after that is Mary. She's in Vale. Mary and then, oh Robert, Robert, he works in Oregon City, and he's eighty-two or -three, right straight down the line. It's all scattered from thereon.
SG: What was your relationship like with your brother and sisters growing up?
BO: Growing up, they always got along with me. I don't know. I'm the easiest one I guess. The oldest one, Jack, he's the hardest one because he likes to be left alone. But then again, he stick his nose in. But he passed away, so I'm the head of the brothers right now.
SG: So was it when you were growing up, how old was the oldest and how old was the youngest child and how many years apart are they?
BO: Oh, that's a hard one. That's a hard one because I left when I was twenty-three. But there was Rosie, was it Rosie that has a barber? I think she's the last one.
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