Predict

The diplomat faces a hard choice. What will he decide to do?

The next morning, he brought the family together and asked what he should do. This was the first time he ever asked all of us to help him with anything.

My mother and Auntie Setsuko had already made up their minds. They said we had to think about the people outside before we thought about ourselves. And that is what my parents had always told me—that I must think as if I were in someone else’s place. If I were one of those children out there, what would I want someone to do for me?