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But, as I must choose one to toast, I choose perhaps an unlikely woman. As I think about [ UNKNOWN ] now, Tennison comes to mind. Though much is taken, much abides. For that which we're, we're. I lived 9 of my first 17 years in Japan, while my father was stationed there and in Vietnam. In 1957 when I was 8, and my sister was 6, my mother found Toshko, a lovely wo, a lovely woman in her mid 30s to teach us the dance skills that she'd learned when she trained as a geisha. Being a top geisha required years of intense training, which Toshka completed in Osaka as a young woman. Before going to Tokyo to begin her career, Toshka returned home for a last visit with her family in Hiroshima, and while she was home the atomic bomb fell on her town. 70 thousand were killed that day, Toshko's chest was blown off and her life was blown apart. No longer a vision of perfection, she could not be geishe, instead she was here, in our living room, in parting her life's learning to 2 awkward American girls. The daughters of a Navy pilot, the symbolic daughters of the men who had taken away her chance, to practice her art, herself. She dressed in a yokata, a plain cotton kimono. And at the V of her neckline, we could see the scars on her chest. Each week she would show me where to put my hands, how to angle my legs for the most grace something I think I've forgotten. How, with a single touch, to close a fan. She sat with me, a [ UNKNOWN ] in my lap, put an over sized, ivory pic in hand, and taught me the notes to the songs. But, because they were not written, I'd no written music, they could only be handed down from a mistress to an initiate. She would wrap her small scared arms around me, as I knelt with the instrument across my lap. Showing me just where my fingers should be for each note, where they should be when I rested. And although there was never a moment of unguarded laughter or joy during the lessons, there was also never a moment of resentment in the 2 years that she came every week. She was not resigned in any way that was marked by bitterness, or defeat. She'd realigned her expectations, a sad moment undoubtedly. And from that time on, she moved with all the grace and serenity that her circumstances would allow. There was a part of that serenity, that would break your heart. But in it too, was the indomitable. Somethings, cannot be taken away. 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