Word: pats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing Pat and Miyoshi seem to have in common: for as long as either of them can remember, each of them seems to have been rehearsing her part in Flower Drum Song...
...when she visited a Sunday-school class one Easter and laced into White Lilies with such gusto that the rest of the kids quit to let her go it alone. To everyone in town, Chiby seemed like just another American kid; people began to call her "Pat." At a "couple of county things" she stopped the show with her unbridled rendition of I Am an American...
Along with the rest of the Suzuki family, Pat was shipped to the Amache relocation camp at Lamar, Colo. There life was a matter of school as usual. She did not sing much, and about the only memories she has are of thunderstorms, dust storms, and the Nisei boy scouts who went out every morning in the shifting sand to raise the American flag...
Bean Cake. After the war the Suzukis spent a year on a Colorado sugar-beet farm, renting their own land to help make a stake. Then they went home to Cressy. For Pat, it was as bad as ever. "I was kind of a homely kid. I was never a school type-I wasn...
...When Pat listened to her radio and heard music from the Edgewater Beach Hotel, she wanted to see Chicago. She could visualize just what the lake and beach would look like. When she saw paintings, she wanted desperately to see the places the artists had painted. And she never forgot some advice her father had once given her: "As you get older, you get afraid to take chances. When you're young, you have the drive. You should use your youth...