Names
“Can two girls named Mika exist at once? Would one have to be erased?”
Susan Kiyo Ito
What an odd thing to be named for
Mika
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likedshe
she
ask
her
We’re sisters.
I’m a Yamada, tooOr I was.
All birth family names in this piece have been changed to protect my relatives’ privacy.

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