My thanks to Wang Tiafang and Unsplash for this photo
Mrs. Kono was a tiny woman, half Hawaiian, half Japanese, who saw my gifts, such as they were, but also found me “a lot of trouble,” often sending me, as did the other teachers, to the principal. “Meka just wants to hear the sound of his own voice,” she told my mother, who agreed. “I think Meka is h…
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