Atsuko Okatsuka

Because I was like, what?

Why didn't we have like a real doctor, you know?

And so I think that's why they flew to Taiwan.

They loved that there was going to be a deal and that it was... You were at a mall.

I'm just outside of a Claire's.

It was a hospital.

But yeah, so day one, that's already happening.

And I find out later my dad wasn't there because I guess the relationship was already rocky.

That's, you know, pretty early on, me as a baby.

And so three months after that, we all moved to Japan to reunite with my dad.

Wow.

Yeah.

And so my mom, you know, so my mom suffers from schizophrenia and my grandma was heavily involved in orchestrating, you know, my mom and dad meeting because she was like, it's going to be hard to marry this daughter off, you know, in Taiwan.

Maybe we go somewhere kind of far.

Maybe we go to Japan where, you know, my daughter doesn't really speak the language.

And so...

There's mental issues.

I think they didn't really know what was wrong with her, you know?

It's kind of like my inkling, because I've said to grandma, you know, like, Taiwan's a small country, but, you know, there's still, like, I think, here's the thing.

At the time, right, a woman in her 30s, single, never had a boyfriend.