kristen: i should mention, you are the daughter of news anchor wanted to --wendy takuda. is wendy's parents, your grandparent's love story as told, how it happened during their internment experience. you put that in a children's book. what was your goal? what do you want the story to reveal? >> i wanted to tell a couple of things to kids. first of all i wanted to be able to address the kind of awful state sanctioned racist violence that is perfectly legal in our country and has been in many instances. exactly what my grandparents experienced. but i also wanted to be able to show the incredible strength of the marginalized groups that these sorts of policies target. that we can do things like fall in love under the most horrendous circumstances. and to highlight our incredible strength as a community. kristen: what we are showing here is your blog. you reveal problem with part of the book, what did they want you to change? >> in my authors note, i'm really careful to situate what happened to my grandparents in american history. the excised and -- entire paragraph comparing