When I was a child growing up in California, my Japanese mother would ask me, "How do you know a tsunami is coming?""

我在加利福尼亚长大，母亲是日本人，小时候她总是问我：“你怎么判断海啸要来了呀？”

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During the 10 years that she lived with me my mother often said she longed to peg out. Occasionally she would ask me and the doctors to finish her off.

和母亲生活的十年间，她常常说渴望去死，有时她会要求我和医生结束她的生命，但多数时候，可以听到她的笑声，感受她的愉悦心情。

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My mother used to ask me what is the most important part of the body. Through the years I would guess at what I thought was the correct answer.

从前我母亲经常问我，身体最重要的部位是什么。许多年来，我一直以为自己所想的是正确答案。

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' my mother would ask after denying me permission to sleep over at a friend's house.

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