So. I went to the family dinner tonight (mini, mom’s side). It was at an Italian-like food place named Morita’s. Don’t ask because I don’t know why an Italian place has a Japanese name. Anyway, I was pretty much defeated by the rest of the day, so I just went (I had originally told my mom that I didn’t want to go). I had to eat dinner, anyway. I met another cousin I hadn’t seen in at least fifteen years if not twenty, and he looked great. He’s twenty-three and doing his mandatory military service so he had to eat and run. He was pretty cool. There were only two sisters (including my mom) and one brother at first, and then the eldest brother and his wife showed up. The dinner was in their honor because they were visiting Taiwan as well. The wife had cancer a few years back and wasn’t expected to make it. She did, and she’s in remission now. Anyway, she is one of those full warpaint, dyed hair, dress to the nines kind of women who desperately tries to look thirty years younger.
One of my uncles was eating grapefruit after he had his dessert. This aunt turned to me and said, “Minna. Grapefruit.” I said, “No, thank you.” Then she said in her little-girl voice, “Minna. Grapefruit. Diet. Lose weight.”
“Fuck you, bitch,” flashed through my mind, but I did not say it, of course. Instead, I turned away from her, and she was dead to me from then on.

I am broken. After a really shitty week, I give up. Many of my friends have bolstered my spirits (and a big thank you to you all), but the lingering sadness, pain, anger, and hopelessness have persisted.