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THROUGH THE FIRE: Celebrating 90 Years of Friendship on Their 99th Birthdays
By MARY UYEMATSU KAO Two July babies now in their 99th year are celebrating their 90+ years of friendship —Shigeko “Shag” (Nishijima) Morishita and Elsie (Morita) Uyematsu Osajima, born in the Year of the Ox. Elsie, my mother, first met Shag on one of her …