Sister – beauty
My sister had a reputation for her beauty. She inherited strong and straight, long limbs from our grandfather. Her oval face was considered to be the ideal shape of Japanese […]
Sister – high school
In the prefecture I grew up in, almost all public high schools were segregated by sex until I graduated in the late ’90s. My sister entered the same girls’ high […]
Sister – Grand Canyon
When my sister turned 15, my parents sent her on a trip to America. The tour was operated by an organization associated with the church at which she had been […]
Sister – “apple”
I was seven years old when my sister started learning English at church, and the language utterly fascinated me. As always, she flaunted me the words and phrases she learned […]
Sister – principles
My sister was popular and was a good friend to her classmates. I had not been in touch with any of my childhood friends after I left home, but my […]
Sister – a star
My sister was not only bright but also was good at teaching since she was little. She’d come home from school and teach me what she learned at school. I […]
Sister – contrast
My sister was born in 1972, also in C-section due to being a breech baby. But unlike mine, the first several years of my sister’s life passed without significant illness. […]
Succession
My father often told me when he was drunk that he wanted a boy and was disappointed when we were born. I was relieved I was born a girl because […]
Father – friends
It looked to me that my father had as many friends as his foes. He had known most of them since childhood or high school. Some of them became his […]
Father – the enemy
I sensed that my father had political enemies. He had a clique of friends, and there was the other clique that didn’t see eye to eye with his. The leader […]