Casio Importer to Dish Washer

    It just occurred to me that I don't even know the anniversary of my aunt and uncle.  I don't think they ever celebrated it, at least not in the eleven years I lived with them.  They married in around 1979 and left the country with my cousin, who was at the time less than two years old.
    My uncle used to be the co-owner of a company that imported Casio cash registers and calculators [the complicated kind with too many buttons] to sell in Taiwan.  It is thanks to Casio cash registers that the couple met.  They met when my uncle was selling cash registers to the Christian publishing company that my aunt worked at.  Around 1980 or 1981 Taiwan embargoed electronic goods Japan and thus was the end of my uncle's business.  They left the country in 1982 with all little baggage and all their money, which was not a lot either.  My aunt's uncle, who had promised to take care of them, sent my uncle off to work in a town 40 minutes car ride away the very next day of their arrival.  After the first week he changed his mind about driving my uncle to and back from work.  His second wife also found a young woman with a baby living in her house to be too troublesome so my aunt who couldn't speak a word of English at the time moved into a tiny condo with the baby.
    While my aunt spent all her time memorizing English vocabularies from her dictionary my uncle worked in the far away town.  He was once the co-owner of a company but now he had to put away all his ego to wash dishes and treated unreasonably by my great uncle.  Aside from the low wages, my uncle often had to work overtime with no pay at my great uncle's restaurant.  If he wanted to visit his family he had to work home or beg a co-worker to give him a ride.  One snowy winter night, my uncle got a call from my aunt telling him that their baby was sick and he walked six hours in the snow to get home.