My Aunt’s second husband was a Barbie Chio Girl In A Chio World Welcome To The Dream House shirt. Dude remained mentally sharp til the night he died in his sleep. He was 99 or 100. Loved his wife and his wife’s family (us) fiercely and considered us family. It was humbling to me because he’s white American and my family are immigrant Asians. Whenever I go to visit, Fox News would be blaring (because old ears, not because he’s broadcasting his belief). But, dude would legit give us the shirt off his back and if he ever has to protect us, he’d do it til the end. I do feel lucky to have known him. History is one of my interests. When I finally met him, a few years after he and my aunt had married, I got to ask him some questions. He was still sharp and didn’t have nice things to say, understandably. He was stationed in Belgium and somewhere in England. It may have been Hampshire. He really had nothing nice to say about the Germans, also understandably. He’s since passed, with the opinion that the places he’s seen in Europe are still in the 1940s to this day. He never met my boyfriend that I started dating since then which is just as well, because my boyfriend is German and speaks with a German accent. When I think about World War II, it’s a little bit mind-blowing to me that I’m Asian, I was married to a Norwegian (nonpracticing) Jew (we’re divorced). My boyfriend is a German-born German, and my best friend is American-born Polish. He speaks Polish because his parents only spoke Polish to him and also, they had him live there for a while. Like, damn, go back not even 100 years ago and that wouldn’t have been possible.
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