... I got ready to leave Tokyo started out on my first journey to foreign country alone. I felt like Columbus starting out for the other end of the earth. I felt like the Pilgrim Fathers who had left their homeland and all their kin behind them and trekked out in search of the New World. I had stayed up night after night, washing, ironing and darning ... ...

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