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There are only a few stories that I've ever wanted to tell…I wanted to record our lives so they wouldn't be lost. I didn't realize what a responsibility that was. I only wanted to put down a few footprints of our sojourn here, at this time, in this place.

— Wakako Yamauchi

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I write as a person, as a woman, as an Asian American, and, if I fulfill my political obligations in being honest, then great…

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