Anna Kai
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108 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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pick you up don't tell them your address yeah exactly so yeah it's a case-by-case basis i don't think it's a deal breaker if that's important to you and you want your boyfriend that you've been in a relationship with to pick you up that's fine like yeah for me i'm just like whatever yeah exactly me too um going to the movies as a first date well you know i love the movies but i don't think that would be a first date anymore
I don't think you should really need external entertainment on a first date. Sometimes guys would try to get creative. Like, let's go rock climbing. I'm like, I freaking hate rock climbing. We can't actually sit and talk. And that's... what's important, not the thing that you're doing.
My husband asked for my parents' hand. Exactly. It was a moot point, but it's a nice gesture.
That's a good thing.
So I actually only knew my grandfather growing up because my paternal grandmother passed away and I was not in touch with my the maternal side. So that was pretty much I think the piece of advice that stuck with me the most is learning how to be lonely and really embrace that. And It's not that my grandfather necessarily gave me a ton of advice, but he lived by example.
He was always like he was always telling my dad because my parents grew up in during the Cultural Revolution in China. And he was like, get out of here. Right. He was like, go somewhere else, you know, build. I mean, China today, my dad was like, I would have never left. But back then in the 90s, there were not that many, not much opportunity. So my grandfather was always saying, go to the U.S.
And I, you know, it sounds morbid, but it's kind of hilarious. He gave my dad this piece of advice. He's like, my parents came here on student visas. And he said, before you get your green card to my parents, do not come back even if I die. Doesn't matter. I'll be dead. Don't come back and risk not being able to re-enter the U.S. And I think it's that sense of just practicality.
Like we must keep moving forward instead of being sentimental, which a lot of people, once they get up there, it's sort of like, you know, you sort of not...
you stop living in reality he was very much always rooted in the president's like how do you make the president better by getting out there and just taking the risk and so i think that's how i've lived my life in the sense that it's like you got to try you know and he was always so proud of me even when there wasn't much to be proud of because he was like anna's making it work in new york do you know how difficult that is exactly right exactly thank you for sharing that i love it i love it yeah i love it
Well, I think what's interesting is that I didn't realize you were 82, by the way. That's a lot older than you feel, honestly. A lot older than I feel, yes. Yeah, because I think a lot of people get into their 70s and 80s and they sort of write themselves off. They're like, well, I'm especially if you're here in Florida, it's like you're just. Yeah, that's why I'm so glad I have Kimmy.
Yeah, well, you golf, you live a very kind of, you know, routine life. That's wonderful. But you start to lose touch with what's going on. Right.
She has no question. She's got everything down pat. I do actually have a question. Uh-oh. And it's not maybe quite so related to dating as to, you know, I lost my grandfather a year and a half ago. And it was actually pretty shocking to me how I felt about it because I always knew if things go according to plan, he's the first family member I'm going to lose.
And we should all be so lucky to pass away at 95. He passed away peacefully with, you know, the family in China by his side.
a full life, right? But I had a really hard time coming to terms with the fact that everybody in my life that I love is going to die one day. How do you deal with that? Because you've lost now everybody.
This is what happens. She gets very sentimental. I do too. And I'm like, we're not going to go there because it's like, I think about them. Like, I'm so close with my parents, right?
Oh, that was a very different China.
Shanghai is amazing. It's amazing. Okay, we have to go.
Excuse my grandma, Shanghai version.
Yeah, if... It felt right. We did actually, my husband and I did, but that was more of a COVID thing. We sort of, he actually, we moved in with my parents for four months during COVID before we were engaged and we lived with them, which is great actually.
It's actually very good to get to really know each other. He got to know my parents in a really, really intimate way that he wouldn't have if we hadn't had that time. So, yeah.
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