15. Grandmother Takata, Parents Furumoto, Childhood
Family duties, prejudices and reconciliation at age 64
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Hawayo Takata had taken her daughter Alice to Japan when she met Chujiro Hayashi. Alice got 1st degree from him. Later she was pushed to study medicine in the hope that she would take over from Takata.
My mother was going to raise a family; she didn’t want to have a career so to speak with Reiki.
Phyllis Furumoto’s father was a medical doctor. He and his wife Alice settled in Iowa.
They wanted to be kind of free of the Hawaiian immigration culture at the time.
The daughter grew up as a pampered child until the age of 5 when a sibling boy started to be centre of attention. Of Japanese descent, with a speech impediment young Phyllis faced alienation and discrimination during her school years.
When I was 64 and found out that I had breast cancer three of my childhood girlfriends came and we talked about my relationship with my mother which was very fraught and my family life back in those days and who they saw I was during that time. And it was a revelation, really, I mean, this was really true reconciliation.