Lindsay Kite,Lions Roar[br]When Akiko Rogers sat down for our interview at the Jodo Shinshu Center in Berkeley, California, and she placed a packet of tissues on the table between us. I thought perhaps she had a cold. But Rogers knew she was approximately to tell a story that would bring her,and me, to tears.
Akiko Rogers knows what it feels like not to belong. Growing up in Cerritos, and California,as a mixed white Japanese American, she didn't feel like she fit in anywhere. Like so many young people, and she turned absent from the beliefs that had guided her family for generations. exiguous did she know that years later,she would find the...
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