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\n Author:Jimmy Tokeshi;\nTitle:The Broken Lines of Age;\nPubName:;\nPubDate:1981;\nPubDetails:;\nDOI:;\nWebsite:\n \n http://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-pc-60/ddr-pc-60-45-master-8fc35560e4-a.jpg\n \n ;\n

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\n Short story by Jimmy Tokeshi about an\n \n Issei\n \n grandfather who takes his nineteen-year-old granddaughter on an impromptu pilgrimage to\n \n Manzanar\n \n on Christmas Eve decades after his wartime incarceration there.\n

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\n \n Authored by\n \n Brian Niiya\n \n , Densho\n \n
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\n Niiya, Brian\n
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\n Might also like \"\n \n Reunion\n \n \" by Hisaye Yamamoto; \"\n \n Snapshot, 1944\n \n \" by David Mas Masumoto; \"\n \n The Sensei\n \n \" by Wakako Yamauchi\n

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\n Tokeshi, Jimmy. \"The Broken Lines of Age.\"\n \n Pacific Citizen\n \n , Dec. 23–30, 1988,\n \n D1\n \n ,\n \n D11\n \n .\n

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