Chapter 6: Mother
Mama’s maiden name is Shindo Mirai. She was an American-born Japanese. She stepped onto the soils of Japan only at the age of 25.
With an IQ score of 160, she is a genius. Visit her alma mater today, the Pennsylvania Medical College, and you would discover that she was the youngest graduate from that college. She was also the youngest psychiatrist who practiced in the affiliated hospital. Even “Medical Discovery”, the leading medical journal then, published her graduation thesis in one of their journal issues. Back then, she was renowned.
During her first year of work in California, she got to know Papa, who was on his search for Kamenashi.
She found him on the beach.
“He looked just like those homeless people on the streets” Mama smiled when she told me.
“Ne, what happened after that?” Like any other child, I was curious to know how my parents managed to overcome the long distance between them.
Perhaps, that was Fate.
Papa, a Japanese, born in Chiba Prefecture, grew up in Tokyo-to.
Mama, a Japanese-American, born in Napa, California, studied in Pennsylvania, USA.
Any map indicated the long distance between these locations. However, these two strangers still met each other on a beach in Santa Monica.
Mama, a natural listener, was a timely consolation to a physically and emotional fatigued Papa.
That was how their story started.
Not long after Papa left US, Mama gave up her bright future and returned to Japan. She only had a visitor permit, so she could only work illegally at convenience stores. Wages there were paid weekly and no identification or permit was needed.
The cost of living in Japan was high and wages for informal work were pathetic. Mama had to work overtime, commute by train and eat simple dishes. She didn’t dare to spend on clothes as well. Her pair of hands, formerly used for writing psychiatry dissertations, turned rough from all the menial work.
It was only after a long period of time that Papa, who was speculated to be in a gay relationship with Kamenashi because of a movie they co-starred, discovered that Mama went through all these hardship because of him.
Chapter 6: Mother
Mama’s maiden name is Shindo Mirai. She was an American-born Japanese. She stepped onto the soils of Japan only at the age of 25.
With an IQ score of 160, she is a genius. Visit her alma mater today, the Pennsylvania Medical College, and you would discover that she was the youngest graduate from that college. She was also the youngest psychiatrist who practiced in the affiliated hospital. Even “Medical Discovery”, the leading medical journal then, published her graduation thesis in one of their journal issues. Back then, she was renowned.
During her first year of work in California, she got to know Papa, who was on his search for Kamenashi.
She found him on the beach.
“He looked just like those homeless people on the streets” Mama smiled when she told me.
“Ne, what happened after that?” Like any other child, I was curious to know how my parents managed to overcome the long distance between them.
Perhaps, that was Fate.
Papa, a Japanese, born in Chiba Prefecture, grew up in Tokyo-to.
Mama, a Japanese-American, born in Napa, California, studied in Pennsylvania, USA.
Any map indicated the long distance between these locations. However, these two strangers still met each other on a beach in Santa Monica.
Mama, a natural listener, was a timely consolation to a physically and emotional fatigued Papa.
That was how their story started.
Not long after Papa left US, Mama gave up her bright future and returned to Japan. She only had a visitor permit, so she could only work illegally at convenience stores. Wages there were paid weekly and no identification or permit was needed.
The cost of living in Japan was high and wages for informal work were pathetic. Mama had to work overtime, commute by train and eat simple dishes. She didn’t dare to spend on clothes as well. Her pair of hands, formerly used for writing psychiatry dissertations, turned rough from all the menial work.
It was only after a long period of time that Papa, who was speculated to be in a gay relationship with Kamenashi because of a movie they co-starred, discovered that Mama went through all these hardship because of him.
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