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 * SHORT VERSION
   
   FLUENT IN JAPANESE, I WAS BORN IN BURMA. THE BURMESE ARE ONE OF THE FEW WHO
   HAVE ALWAYS PERMITTED WOMEN TO INHERIT THEIR FATHER'S ESTATE. MY MATERNAL
   GRANDMOTHER WAS KOREAN HAWAIIAN JAPANESE. I LIVED IN ASIA FOR 20 YEARS WHERE
   I PRACTICED JAPANESE TRANSACTIONS. I WENT TO LAW SCHOOL IN TŌKYŌ. I'M
   LICENSED BY CALIFORNIA AND NEW YORK. & PAINTED HOUSES.
   
    
   
   I MEDITATE TWICE A DAY IN THE SOTO TRADITION AND LIKE TO CYCLE. BEFORE LAW
   SCHOOL I WAS A WATERSKI INSTRUCTOR IN GREECE, A DOWNHILL SKI GUIDE IN
   AUSTRIA, A MOTORCYCLE COURIER IN LONDON, AND OTHER OCCUPATIONS IN EUROPE NOT
   REQUIRING DOCUMENTATION. MY MATERNAL GREAT GRANDMOTHER HELPED START GOODWILL.
   MY PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER HELPED FOUND THE NAACP CHAPTER IN KALAMAZOO. I HAVE
   SERVED ON THE BOARDS OF A JAPAN SOCIETY AND A JAPANESE ANIMAL WELFARE
   ORGANISATION.
   
    
   
   LIVE WELL. LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

 * LONG VERSION
   
   AFTER A COUPLE SUMMERS WORKING AT A JEWISH GIRL'S CAMP IN MAINE, AND
   GRADUATIONS IN WESTERN NEW YORK, IN 1986 I STRAPPED MY SLEEPING BAG TO MY
   1976 KZ400 I'D BOUGHT FOR $300, AND DROVE TO THE RUSTLER LODGE IN ALTA UTAH
   TO FIND WORK. I TOURED THE WEST BY MOTORCYCLE, WORKED FOR A COMPANY OWNED BY
   ROSS PEROT IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, THEN WENT TO EUROPE. I PACKED IKEA
   PRODUCTS AT A FACTORY IN SWEDEN. I WORKED AS A SKI GUIDE IN THE TYROL, AND AS
   A MIGRANT LABOURER IN ANDALUCIA. I WAS A WATERSKI INSTRUCTOR ON A SMALL
   ISLAND IN THE AEGEAN, AND, IN ENGLAND'S WEST COUNTRY, FOR MULTIPLE WORLD
   SILVER MEDALIST, JOHN BATTLEDAY. VERY SEXY MAN.
   
    
   
   I RETURNED TO FLORIDA, AND SAILED FROM THE BAHAMAS TO BELIZE ON AN HISTORICAL
   VESSEL, THE GENEVIEVE, A 1920'S GRAND BANKS SCHOONER. I EVENTUALLY CONCLUDED
   I OUGHT TO PRETEND TO HAVE A REAL JOB. THANKS TO MY UNCLE, STEVEN PAUL JOBS,
   I DECIDED TO GO TO LAW SCHOOL. BEFORE STARTING LAW SCHOOL IN CONNECTICUT, TO
   BE CERTAIN MY LEGAL CAREER WOULD CONTINUE MY EXPLOITS IN INTERNATIONAL
   AFFAIRS, I BEGAN STUDYING JAPANESE. IN CASE YOU THINK I HAVE AN APPLE BIAS,
   PAUL GARDNER ALLEN, THE SECOND CEO OF MICROSOFT IS ALSO A RELATION.
   
    
   
   MY FATHER WOULD OFTEN REMIND US OF SOMETHING HE LEARNED AT SCHOOL. "THERE
   COULD HAVE BEEN CHRISTIANITY WITHOUT CHRIST, BUT THERE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN
   CHRISTIANITY WITHOUT PAUL." PAUL, COMMONLY KNOWN AS PAUL THE APOSTLE OR SAINT
   PAUL, IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CAUSE OF CHRIST AND THE
   SPREADING AND FORMATION OF CHRISTIANITY IN 1234. UNFORTUNATELY, THERE IS NO
   INDEPENDENT EVIDENCE OF A MAN WANDERING AROUND THE LAVANT WITH 12 GUYS AND A
   WOMAN. CHRISTIANITY IS BASED ON AN ESTIMATED PROPHET.
   
    
   
   DURING LAW SCHOOL I TOOK A LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO WORK ON THE JET PROGRAMME AT A
   GIRL'S HIGH SCHOOL IN ISHINOMAKI. I SPENT THE 1994 SPRING HOLIDAY HITCHHIKING
   IN MALAYSIA, VISITING LAKE TOBA IN INDONESIA, AND VISITING FAMILY FRIENDS IN
   YANGON AND SINGAPORE. AFTER A SEMESTER OF LAW SCHOOL IN TOKYO, I INTERNED AT
   A LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY THINK TANK IN AKASAKA MITSUKE.
   
    
   
   AFTER BEING ADMITTED TO THE NEW YORK BAR IN 1997, I WAS INVITED TO WORK FOR
   SQUARESOFT IN LOS ANGELES. IN 2000, I WAS ADMITTED TO THE CALIFORNIA BAR. IN
   2001, I WORKED AT WHAT BECAME THE LARGEST LAW FIRM IN JAPAN, IN PART BECAUSE
   OF MY MEMOIR. IN 2005, I BEGAN WORK AT A BOUTIQUE FIRM IN OSAKA, WHERE,
   THANKS TO ADV. KOHEI IWASAKI, I ADOPTED MY LEGALLY REGISTERED JAPANESE ALIAS,
   MASAHISA MINAMOTO.
   
    
   
   THE MINAMOTO CLAN WERE DESCENDED FROM THE EMPEROR'S OFFSPRING WHO DID NOT
   SUCCEED TO THE THRONE. THE JAPANESE IDEOGRAPHIC CHARACTERS FOR MASAHISA
   APPROXIMATE MY NICKNAME MAK, SHORT FOR MCINTIRE. THE MAC COMPUTER IS NAMED
   AFTER ME.
   IN 2012, I RETURNED TO TOKYO WITH MY KASHIHARA BIRTHING SPOUSE, KANAKO 'KANA'
   YOSHIDA ALLEN.
   
    
   
   OUR DAUGHTER'S AMERICAN NAME IS SKYE 満華 INTIREINA ALLEN. INTIREINA IS A
   MACINTYRE MATRONYMIC. THE IDEOGRAPHS FOR SKYE'S JAPANESE NAME, MAKA, MEAN
   FULL ESSENCE. WE MOVED TO THE TENNOZ ISLE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF TOKYO IN 2012. IN
   AUGUST 2017 I MOVED TO FLORIDA, AND IN MAY 2018 I MOVED TO COLORADO. IN MAY
   OF 2021, I SOLD MOST OF MY STUFF, CANCELLED MY LEASE, AND STARTED A
   PILGRAMAGE. I DRIVE ABOUT 50,000K A YEAR.
   
    
   
   IN 令和４年ZEROTOBER, I RETURNED TO JAPAN. IN NOVEMBER, I MOVED TO NOZAWA. NOZAWA
   WOMEN ARE KNOWN TO BE STRONG-WILLED. HM, SUCH COINCIDENCES.
   
    
   
   GO BOLDLY, OR DON'T GO AT ALL. LOVE YOU.
   
   LONGER VERSION
   
   My sixth great grandfather was born Micum McIntire in 1635 at Glencoe,
   Antrim, Scotland. On the losing side at the Battle of Dunbar in a British
   civil war, he was death marched diagonally across England, from southeastern
   Scotland to southwestern England.
   
    
   
   Of the more than 10,000 losing Scottish soldiers who were death marched,
   about one-third survived and were shipped to America. Micum was sentenced to
   seven years of indentured servitude in New Hampshire, after which he made his
   way to York County, Maine and bought a house now called The McIntire
   Garrison, one of the, if not the, oldest extant wooden buildings in Maine.
   
    
   
   After her parents emigrated from Germany, my maternal grandfather's mother
   was born Margaret Anne Evans in Nova Scotia in 1833. Her third son was my
   grandfather, Sidney Chester McIntire, born in Medford, Massachusetts in 1871,
   the first McIntire not born in York in well more than two centuries.
   
    
   
   In 1894 Sidney, his father and his brother owned a "ventilating apparatus and
   hardware specialities" manufacturer in Boston. In 1915 Sidney continued to
   work full time when he started attending Northeastern Law School. According
   to Massachusetts Bar records he wrote onto the Bar at a law office in Boston.
   
    
   
   He was called to the Bar of the City of Boston on 11 March 1919. On that
   date, 92 years later, Ishinomaki, my Japanese hometown, was destroyed by an
   artificial tidal wave.
   
   My non-biological maternal grandmother, Doris Currey Martin, born in 1900,
   married a medical surgeon for her practice marriage. Her spouse died of
   hepatitis within a year.
   
    
   
   In 1928, MacIntyre left Boston in his Cord, met Doris for the first time in
   the Western tier of New York, and drove with her to Key West.
   
    
   
   Together they ferried to Cuba, returned to Key West, and drove to the Grand
   Canyon. In her nineties, she told me about hiking to the bottom of the
   Canyon, though she could not recall with whom! Doris, sporting fur and
   bouquet, was photographed with MacIntyre (spellings vary) on the Canyon's rim
   in 1928.
   
   
   They kept driving to Los Angeles, then San Francisco where she nursed one of
   the Wright brothers in hospital. Doris and Sidney honeymooned and settled in
   Hawaii. In 1930 a maid with Japanese ancestry, whom they called Kimi, resided
   with them. My mother was born to Kimi, my biological grandmother, while they
   lived at 2066 Lanihuli Street.
   
    
   
   In 1936 MacIntyre was working as an assistant district attorney until taking
   up private practice on King Street. A decade before the bombing of Pearl
   Harbor, Doris left Hawaii to raise my mother in New York. I don't recall ever
   hearing my mother call Doris 'Mom'. Doris was childless late in life, and
   since at that time there wasn't artificial insemination, my guess is Kimi was
   their surrogate mother.
   
    
   
   On her 100th birthday we had a shindig to tell. Doris died at the age of 103
   in New York, having lived in three centuries.
   
    
   
   On the Emperor's birthday in 1941, a few weeks after the purported Japanese
   attempt to retake the Kingdom of Hawaii, my grandfather was supposedly felled
   by a stroke in Honolulu. He never again resided at their home at 1937 Kakela
   Drive. Documents suggest he died in 1944, and the Honolulu courts closed for
   a day out of respect. His obituary called him a kamāina, a child of the land.
   
    
   
   Indeed, he was evacuated from Hawaii to Japan with my biological grandmother
   on Pearl Harbor Day. For decades he had been unsuccessfully trying to leave
   America. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a pretence. The purpose was not to
   retake the islands for Asians, but to extricate my grandparents from American
   hegemony.
   
    
   
   I was unable to learn more about my biological grandmother other than a photo
   with her name, Kimi. In 2018, on his ninetieth birthday, my father admitted
   to me about my mother's, and my East Asian ancestry. My mother faked
   whiteness her entire life. Until a few years ago, my siblings and I were led
   to believe we were Caucasian.
   
   My paternal grandmother, Ethel May Dennis, was born in Sarnia, Ontario,
   Canada in 1898. Her ancestors arrived in Canada when her great grandfather,
   Thomas Moore, born about 1800 in Knaresdale, Northumberland, emigrated from
   England.
   
    
   
   Kalamazoo College, one of the pioneers in coed education, had been graduating
   women for more than 50 years when Ethel graduated in 1921. Ethel was active
   in the Kalamazoo Chapter of the United Nations Association as well as a
   founding member of the Kalamazoo Chapter of the National Association for the
   Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
   
    
   
   After college, my paternal grandfather, Harold Brainerd Allen, started his
   career as a trust officer at First National Bank in Kalamazoo. Within six
   years, he was "treasurer of the Industrial Finance Company specialising in
   trust affairs." He then served on the board and as General Counsel of the
   bank.
   
    
   
   Harold helped found the first Goodwill Store in Kalamazoo. Beginning in 1949,
   he served as Secretary on the Board of Directors at The Upjohn Company, the
   Pfizer kernel. Photographed in 1958, Harold is seated on the far left, second
   row. A Utah website calls Upjohn "one of the largest ethical drug
   manufacturers in the United States."
   
   PARENTS, HERS & MINE
   
   I am writing this from Bowdoin, where my father did not go to college.
   Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow did. My father went to
   Bates for a year away from K College. My father was, and probably always will
   be the gentlest man I will ever know. He never cared if people thought him
   effeminate or weak. He had the strength of his convictions, and taught me my
   work ethic by showing me his when we were working on carpentry projects and
   lawn work at his small business. He coached our Little League team, taught me
   to waterski, and helped pioneer four handed dentistry by starting a trade
   school, a training industry which has since been subsumed by the state. He
   passed.
   
    
   
   My mother was a member of the National Honor Society in high school and a
   class president at Middlebury College. Middlebury was the site of the first
   college education of women in America. She was well loved by people who knew
   her well, or briefly, and had an introspective, Japanese way about her. She
   taught me my first Japanese.
   
    
   
   She was destined to be more than a homemaker, and eventually broke the
   constraints. She deserted my father and left him to raise five children. I
   was 16. Her death appeared, on Guy Fawkes Night, to be suicide by immolation.
   I don't think my father ever recovered.
   
    
   
   I don't fault her for leaving. On the contrary, I admire her resolve. Her
   purported death, like her father's, was faked. The world was not yet ready.
   Our family's privacy has been perpetually invaded.
   
    
   
   Twelve years after her documented death, I was to meet her again. She had
   moved to England and, after our reunion in spring 1991 in New Smyrna Beach,
   returned to England. Marcia = a marsh = The Swamp.
   
    
   
   I won't run from who I am, nor will I be silenced. For example, during Mr.
   Obama's administration, the United States government's torture of me included
   hacking into a medical facility where I was receiving a medical procedure
   resulting in something akin to anal rape.
   
    
   
   When that didn't work, and I applied for political asylum in Switzerland, Mr.
   Obama threatened the Swiss with complete devaluation of their currency. At
   American instruction, I was put in the Swiss refugee camp for known rapists,
   and other criminals, were housed awaiting deportation. I was almost raped in
   the refugee camp by two large men.
   
    
   
   Instead of President, I often refer to United States presidents as mister. I
   do so because, although they might claim they have no 'personal' quarrel with
   my family or others America has tortured, silenced or killed, we find the
   violations to be very personal. If you are an American citizen reading this,
   I forgive you. I forgive your government, and I forgive your presidents. I
   will never, ever forget. None of us will.
   
    
   
   I will not let you do to my daughter what you did to my mother. I will not.
   The Buddhist in me warns that striving for something is often the best way
   not to get it.
   
    
   
   If, after reading this, my blog and my memoir, you still don't understand
   what I am, please ask someone you think is smarter than you. I appreciate
   your understanding.

 * LONGEST VERSION
   
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   A MEMOIR BY STEVEN MCINTIRE ALLEN
   
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