#anyways i was tasked with digitalizing all of the family's pictures and thought i'd share her story + pics with ya'll

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“We met in Tokyo. I was working as a gift shop cashier on the same base he was stationed at. Neither one of us spoke the other’s language when we first started dating; he would take night lessons at the base while my sister helped me learn English at home. A year into our relationship, he was called back to America. My mother told me to forget about him but I continued to write him while he was away. During our correspondence I grew incredibly ill and thought I would never see him again. But by fate I managed to recover around the time he returned to Japan. We made plans to get married in America so that I could apply for citizenship. Before I left home, my mother gave me the equivalent of 100 dollars in secret. ‘Just in case,’ she said to me ‘so you can return home if it doesn’t workout’.

 I did return home a few years later, as a married woman and mother to your father. We stayed for two years before moving to California and I haven’t been back since. My sister pasted away first. Then my mother. Then my father. My brother last year. All that is left is my other sister and I... I do not regret my choices, but I miss my home.”

My Grandparent’s Love Story

#my grandma is a very reserved woman #but i remember one day i came to their house to help with some pictures she told me about how she met my grandpa + the struggles they faced #and i was taken away by how much it sounded like something from a movie #anyways i was tasked with digitalizing all of the family's pictures and thought i'd share her story + pics with ya'll #ok to reblog if you fancy #history #mango talk