¡°My father came to Tokyo from Karuizawa to meet me,¡± wrote Beate Sirota Gordon in a message to me, which she sent several years before her death in 2012 at age 89. ¡°He looked gaunt and undernourished. ... My mother did not come because undernourishment had caused her to swell up, and she was ill in bed. So I went with my father to Karuizawa. It was a tearful but joyful reunion.¡±
Last Boat to Yokohama: The Life and Legacy of Beate Sirota Gordon, by Nassrine Azimi, Michel Wasserman and Beate Sirota Gordon
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