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Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink was born in Maui in the 1920s, the third-generation descendant of Japanese immigrants (sansei). Mink grew up on a sugar plantation and entered high school in 1940, one year before Honolulu was attacked by Japan. In 1942, anti-asian hostility and violence hit a boiling point, and FDR passed Executive Order 9066,…