Atsuko Okatsuka
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And I suddenly, you know, I didn't get to say bye to my dad, who's in Japan, super busy, you know, raising kids there.
And I didn't get to say bye to my friends there.
So I just felt super like suddenly, oh, like I didn't get closure from my place.
And then I got busy, right, with like cheerleading or trying to get a driver's license.
I finally got my green card when I was 17.
We did the Visa Lottery program.
Where, you know, I guess my grandma, the hustler, finagler, pretended we were in Japan still the whole time.
And she put our names into the lottery.
She she could do that, too.
But she's doing like international committing international.
I say crimes, but she really was able to with a network of other grandmas from the church.
And we know grandmas like the network of grandmas.