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After I was used by Morgan Taketa, I stay in my bed of Amazon packaging and bubble wrap for almost two weeks straight. Unfortunately for …
We are sitting in a restaurant in Battery Park, which is on the south side of the island of Manhattan. Morgan tells me that it …
“This was just amazing.” Morgan Taketa says after wiping his lips with a cloth napkin that was hand-sewn by my best friend, Risa. He still …
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Read Part 1 He produced an incredible amount of work in the camps. There were two different paintings that I wanted to ask you about. …
“I think that as a child, I feel that I was protected because my parents and their friends and my grandparents never really spoke about …
Deep’s Butcher Shop in East Harlem is nothing like the ones I’ve seen in other parts of New York City. Yes, there’s a large refrigerated …
My feet are swollen and sore, and it’s all because of pork belly. In Japan we had a special distributor which brought our okonomiyaki restaurant …
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A-ra, I think, struggling to turn off the hot water shower faucet. My uncle. The last person in the whole wide world that I want …
“I guess we are throwaway girls,” Risa says, helping me to unpack one of my boxes. I do not know why it is taking her …
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Read Part 1 >> Family is important to Yagi, explains his daughter Sakura, because his own was fractured when he was very young. His father …
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