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Same design on the front and back sides

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Though she was on vacation in present-day San Francisco just moments before

Through Julie Morstad's exquisite illustrations

Mary Kitagawa - A Nikkei Canadian Life japanese canadian internment history tissue boxesBy Karen M. Inouye This book tells the story of Japanese Canadian activist Mary Kitagawa. In the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombing, Mary was one of roughly 22,000 Nikkei uprooted from their homes on the Pacific coast and forbidden to return to western British Columbia until long after World War II had officially ended. In the decades that followed, Mary and her family navigated financial precarity and ostracism, but also found ways to pursue both