The following day my mom and dad took a bus to Delta and a train to Salt Lake City for their honeymoon. A school friend of my mom’s who had relocated to Salt Lake City made a hotel reservation for them at the Wilson Hotel on 200 South, and they spent much of their honeymoon seeing my mother’s friends and acquaintances who had relocated to Salt Lake City and Ogden.
October 29, 1943
To Mrs. Shigeru Sasaki, 4-5-E, Topaz, Utah
From Kay Uchida, Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts:
I was so happy & thrilled to hear the exciting & wonderful news…
About the contributor: Ruth Sasaki was born and raised in San Francisco after the War. The Takahashis, her mother’s family, were incarcerated in Tanforan and Topaz. A graduate of UC Berkeley (BA) and SF State (MA), she has lived in England and Japan. Her short story “The Loom” won the American Japanese National Literary Award, and her collection, The Loom and Other Stories, was published in 1991 by Graywolf Press. She shares her more recent writing via her website: www.rasasaki.com.
Copyright 2017, R. A. Sasaki. All rights reserved.
I will never tire of reading stories of how two people meet and fall in love, the circumstances and background, how their lives were brought together.
the stories are especially savored and remembered when those of our own parents. they become part of your own shared family history, but those stories form threads that bind us to all people.
so, thankyou for sharing with us, Ruth.
Thanks, Barbara. Knowing the outlines of my mom and dad’s story helped me to better understand the small part of it that I was privileged to share with them.
A beautiful story, Ruth. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Sheila—great to hear from you!