Sweet Like John

Whenever I tell people about my Chinese stepdad and how he came to America, what he survived as a child, how he met my mother and fell in love with all of us, added two more children with her, making us a family of ten, and achieved his American dream, retired and was diagnosed with Alzheimer's…they listen with eyes wide, often shiny with tears, and in soft voices say, "e;You should write a book!"...