(Note: The Tatars, a Mongolian Grassland ethnic group here, do not distinguish between Asian races.)
"In the end, your grandmother calmly had a servant go to the supermarket and buy a ready-made lasagna. Facing your grandfather's somewhat angry questioning, she kicked me under the table and said it was the family's cat that knocked over the aluminum tray originally holding the lasagna."
Mrs. Sakai recalled her youthful past and chuckled, "That big orange cat didn't get a good look from your grandfather for a full six months. I always felt quite sorry for that old cat in the house for a long time."
"You and dad had such things happen, huh."
Koizumi Katsuko rarely heard her parents talk about their dating past.
She only knew that her mother's family conditions were much better than her father's.
However, each winter when vacationing at the seaside villa in Barcelona, her grandfather, that little old man, was always very kind to their family.
