Putting a personal face on disaster

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Many years ago, I met a very nice Japanese woman at B’s first-grade class picnic. Her family had been in Oakland for the year, while her husband did something connected with UC Berkeley, and the next year they returned to Japan. We exchanged holiday cards for a few years, and she sent me a little book about her lovely city in northern Honshu, Sendai. I have thought of them so often today!