Chapter Twenty-Two
This chapter is a direct transcript of a translated session
in which the Asian speaker was interviewed in her native language, although she spoke good English and used many English phrases.
Pony Up
I grew up on a farm, a long train ride from the nearest big city. Perhaps for this reason alone, I became very close to the animals, especially the horses. My father was a well to do American who married my mother when she was quite young, but he left her when she was pregnant with me and never returned. We never learned what happened to him, but since my mother was certain that he worked for some government agency, it was likely he died during the war and we were never notified because we were not officially his family. Fortunately, my grandparents moved to the farm with
