Shame on Me

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Shame on me. I hereby promise to make this session much more of a pleasant read. Kootch is now in Tokyo with her other family. One of the last things she said to me before she left was spoken in Japanese. I was watching tv in the living room and she walked in smiling and began spouting Japanese not realizing she was speaking in her mother tongue. Only after I said something like, 'Would you run that by me again in English?' did she notice her 'language misapplication.' She does this every year as she prepares for her annual vacation. Sometimes it happens after she returns. I can't imagine confusing two languages that way because I know only one. I tried learning Japanese in the early years of our marriage but gave it up when it became clear the USAF was not about to send me back to Japan.