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“My mother cooked two dinners every night”

Narrator Name | Interviewed April 18, 2026 | Tacoma, Washington | 48 min

A daughter recalls the household she grew up in, the food on the table, the language she stopped speaking at school, and what was never discussed at home.

Background

EXAMPLE PAGE — replace all of this. Born in 1961 near Fort Lewis, she is the eldest of three. She began recording her mother’s stories in her forties, after realizing how little of the family history had been written down.

Selected passages

02:30
On the two kitchens, and which food was for whom.
19:15
What she understood in Korean but stopped answering in.
35:50
The questions she wishes she had asked earlier.

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Cite this interview

Interview with [Narrator], [date], Korean War & Military Brides Project, https://kwasant7.github.io/kwb-project/

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