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	<title>Miyasan's Daughter &#187; Background</title>
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	<description>A Healing Journey of an Asian American Daughter</description>
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		<title>Part 5: My Legacy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[She died that night. I was angry with her for years. But since then, I&#8217;ve been humbled by my own mistakes, by the things I have done that I now realize made my children feel unloved, neglected, perhaps unwanted at times, and I know &#8211; I know without a doubt how much I loved them, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 4: Ambivalence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother and I had an ambivalent relationship. She had always stated she wanted her children to be close to their father, as she had never been. I believe her. But she had no concept of boundaries, no idea what a healthy relationship was. And the child in her was so needy she could not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 3: Our Relationship</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During this time, I walked my own healing path. I had contact with Mom. I took care of her. I always felt it was my responsibility. I knew how much my mother had given up to marry my father &#8211; she made sure she told me &#8211; her career as a model, the country she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 2: My Beginnings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was an accident &#8211; at least on my father&#8217;s part. I&#8217;m not so sure on my mother&#8217;s. She wanted him more than anything. My father was in the Navy and was getting transferred back to the United States. My mother told me I was &#8220;this close&#8221; to getting aborted. The last time they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 1: Miyasan&#8217;s Beginnings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother was born in China in 1926, where she spent the first two years of her life, before she was sold to a Japanese couple. They took her to Japan, where she was raised. My mother suffered considerable abuse from her stepfather. Her first stepmother provided a sort of buffer, but when she died, [...]]]></description>
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