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My Lost Family in Japan

This morning I had a conversation with a friend who lived in Japan, and whose parents still live there. And then later started reading…

Jul 16, 2016

My Lost Family in Japan

Jul 16, 2016

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My Parents at the Age My Daughter is Now

I recently contemplated what it was like for my parents when they were the same age that I am now. But then I came across some old…

Apr 16, 2016

My Parents at the Age My Daughter is Now

Apr 16, 2016

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How I Fell In Love With Fresno

My godmother, aka my Auntie Kiyo, was originally from Fresno. But after the war, she ended up in New York, and I remember her always as a…

Feb 1, 2016

How I Fell In Love With Fresno

Feb 1, 2016

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My Parents At The Age I Am Now

I had to do a little math to figure out when my parents were the same age as I am now. Here are some pictures from 1978 parents weekend…

Jan 12, 2016

My Parents At The Age I Am Now

Jan 12, 2016

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A Picture is Worth A Bunch of Words

My Bridal Hurricane

When I got married, back in 1988, I really didn’t have a clue about anything. Back then there were not entire websites dedicated to…

Jan 9, 2016

My Bridal Hurricane

Jan 9, 2016

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The Traveling Salesman

I recently found this newspaper clipping in a box full of memorabilia. I see my father in his element, chatting up the gift-shop ladies at…

Dec 30, 2015

The Traveling Salesman

Dec 30, 2015

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A Picture is Worth A Bunch of Words

My Mother’s Two Birthdays

According to my mother, and according to her own mother, she was born in Brooklyn on December 22, 1922. She frequently says, nobody forgets…

Dec 23, 2015

My Mother’s Two Birthdays

Dec 23, 2015

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First Adulting Christmas, 1983

That Christmas, I was 24 years old. I had moved across the country to San Francisco and I had my first real job as a physical therapist. I…

Dec 17, 2015

First Adulting Christmas, 1983

Dec 17, 2015

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My Grandfather’s Restaurant, 1929, New York

My grandfather left his job working in the kitchen of a Brooklyn hospital in the mid-1920s, and opened his own restaurant, Nikko, on 165th…

Dec 14, 2015

My Grandfather’s Restaurant, 1929, New York

Dec 14, 2015

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Crystal Breeding was the social worker who arranged my adoption.

My mother tells me she literally went over their apartment (in Fort Lee, New Jersey) with white-gloves. She told them it would be “highly…

Dec 12, 2015

Crystal Breeding was the social worker who arranged my adoption.

Dec 12, 2015

Susan Ito

Susan Ito

Writer. Editor. Teacher. Performer. Type 2 Diabetic. Foodie. Couch-to-5k runner. Hapa. Physical Therapist. Adoptee. Activist.

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