After our stay in Mt. Aso, we went to visit my Auntie Tamaki, who lives in a small town called Shitanoe. My auntie must be about 90, and she lives with her daughter, Yoko. Because Auntie Tamaki was raised in the states, she speaks and reads English pretty well, but unfortunately, her hearing is starting to go. Oftentimes, we communicated using paper and pen. While this wasn't necessarily the ideal way to communicate, Nicole and I ended up with a transcript of our visit. We talked over tea while going through some boxes of my Auntie's pictures. We ended up talking about my family's history. While some of the details were a little unclear, it seems that before World War II, my auntie immigrated to China with my grandparents (who had themselves immigrated to America), where
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