Part 5—Return to Japan and Final Days
Lilly, upon thinking back, believed she lost at the very least 20 relatives in the bombing and, since moving to the U.S., has returned to Japan as many times as possible to see her remaining family. The Krohn family, including daughter Carol, visited for the first and only time at age 21, seeing the significance of her mother’s lineage and homeland as it related to her own life.
Lilly’s father, Matajiro, had kept an American doll on the end table by his sitting chair. He informed Carol, through translation, that he had the doll since her …