I was born in Gansu province. When I was twelve my father took my brother and I to Hebei to stay with his family--my great grandfather came from Japan in the 1920's for work and his family settled there. My mother stayed behind in Gansu to care for my two younger sisters and Grandmother.
In Hebei, my brother and I would go to school while my father worked. We stayed with my father’s family for three years and four months before moving into an apartment closer to Beijing.
When my brother graduated, he went to trade school three hours south by train in Shandong. My father and I visited him twice. I rarely get a chance to see him these days.
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