Japanese war brides were hard workers. Roleta was raised by foster parents so her mother, who spoke little English, could earn a living as an entertainer in Little Tokyo after she and her husband divorced. Andy's mother learned her job so well that she worked her way up to a supervisory position with a Fortune 500 company.
On the Japanese War Brides Families & Friends Facebook group page, a war bride daughter discovered that she had lived on the same naval base as another war bride daughter when they were children. They recently reunited. One daughter appears in (chapter 3) The Kids, the other in (chapter 5) BFF's; Buddhist Friends Forever.