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
i.
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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