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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
My mother was a product of World War II. My grandfather was on leave in Edinburgh when he met my grandmother.
My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she was 60. I almost have to apologise for my genes.
Growing up with my mother who grew up during World War II being half Filipina, half Okinawan, and literally running around the jungles in the Philippines escaping Japanese military chasing after them - I grew up with what they deem now as trauma, generational trauma.