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After his sisters were taken away, the Japanese occupying force sent my grandfather to Imperial Schools. My first language is Japanese, he tells me. English far away. But, okay. Be like a fox, he says. Okay. Sometimes, right after he told me, I would look at him and wonder what it felt like, to have the print of your enemy all the way inside you, right into the way you shaped your thoughts. But I know now.

i love picking up this book and putting it down three pages later to just Sit and Breathe

Mamma mia iniziato e mai fermato penso di non aver mai letto così intensamente