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FM to get started. Welcome to a very kind of different episode of Straightwide

American Jesus. My name is Brad O'Nishi and this is not a normal episode of our show. I wanted to share a kind of an audio essay that I've kind of formulated just in the wake of the death of Kobe Bryant.

I know that many of you listen to this show obviously for religion and politics and you may

be thinking of no interest in sports or basketball or Kobe and that's totally

fine and if you turn this off right now I'll totally understand.

The story I'm going to tell is really about family and about immigration and about

you know what it means to be an American and I know that may sound strange for now but hopefully it'll make sense in a second so I'm

just gonna kind of get into it and if this isn't any way meaningful to you then that's that's amazing and

her name was Hissau. She came to this country as a picture bride that means that she was picked out of a book by a much older man and put on a boat and then shipped here to this country.

After making a long journey across the ocean she showed up after a shore side mass

wedding started a new life in a new country where she knew no one and didn't

speak the language didn't know the culture.

While Hisawa and her husband eventually struck out in California and San Francisco after a very brief

time and then had to make their way to Maui where her husband's brother was a successful business person.

I'm not sure why or how, but Hissau and her husband couldn't have kids.

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