Atsuko Okatsuka
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And we pick up.
We're like, what's going on?
They're like, he goes, Nancy, tell my sister-in-law and my brother what you just told me.
And she goes, yeah.
Y'all aren't married.
And we're like, what?
She's like, there's no record of you guys ever having gotten married.
She goes, Atsuko, you don't have a husband.
I said, I'm so sorry.
We've just been boyfriend and girlfriend.
This whole time?
This whole time?
It was a devastating realization.
I said, this is the second time I've been undocumented.
And they got me again.
They got me again.
But this time it was my fault.
And that is progress.
Because the first time was not.
The first time my grandma, you know, lied to me about a two-month vacation to the U.S.