To my mother, Megumi Yamaguchi Shinoda, M.D.,
who was determined to help me grow up—as she hadn’t—
feeling that I was fortunate to be a girl,
and could do whatever I aspired to as a woman.
To my mother, Megumi Yamaguchi Shinoda, M.D.,
who was determined to help me grow up—as she hadn’t—
feeling that I was fortunate to be a girl,
and could do whatever I aspired to as a woman.