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EPISODE · Mar 7, 2026 · 2 MIN

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from Talking and Reading from Japan by Hidemi Woods · host Hidemi Woods

Episode from The Family in Kyoto: One Japanese Girl Got Freedom by Hidemi WoodsHidemiWoods.comAudiobook  : Japanese Dream by Hidemi Woods On Sale at online stores or apps.Apple Books, Audible, Google Play, Nook Audiobooks,  43 available distributors in total.crazyI was born at the small hospital in a rural area. Although not many expectant mothers checked in there, two baby girls were born on the same day, one of whom was I. We shared the newborn room, sleeping in a bed side by side. Before the birth, I’d had a possibility to have severe jaundice of the newborn.My mother was told it would either leave a brain defect if I had it, or make me extremely intelligent if I didn’t have it. Instead of jaundice, I was born with a hip joint dislocation. My right leg had been regularly dislocated and hung loosely until I was one or two years old and my mother had to take me to the hospital each time.About the time when my leg finally stopped getting dislocated, there was a piece of news in a local newspaper that a little girl was thrown into the river and killed by her parent. The victim was the baby who was born on the same day as I was and slept in the next bed to me at the hospital. Since both the town and the hospital were small, my mother and my grandmother remembered the name of the baby and the area she lived in. I was luckier and I outlived her without any more dislocation or jaundice. The latter should have resulted in me being extremely intelligent but my parents consider me simply crazy…

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