After decades apart, a daughter asked her dad for an apology. She got it — and they got their relationship back.
I often dream about sugar cane. Our family home in Okinawa was built next to acres and acres of sugar cane, and back in the late 1960s, the towering fields were a vast playground for me and my big sister, Janet.
When we presented him with our ill-gotten gains, he’d cut off the outer layer of the sugar cane, and the three of us would stand there, bent over, next to the hot grill, sucking out the sweet juices. Then we’d spit the fibrous bits on the ground and, being the little brat that I was — I’d wave at the angry men in the fields.My father, who mostly worked as a musician, was the cook at home. Our mother was busy running a successful nightclub, which meant she slept all day.
When Greg and Janet arrived, our family was under the same roof for the first time in years. Daddy was confined to a hospital bed in a nearby room, but we were together. We missed him around the dinner table each night, but we missed him more in the kitchen.
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