A Model Romance
By Michael P. Thomas
As his grandson would do on an Asiana Airlines 777 sixty years later, Kai Lafferty’s grandfather landed at Incheon in 1950. He did so as an infantryman, and he returned to California from his tour of duty in Korea with a prosthetic hand and a young wife. Kai had inherited many more physical traits from his grandmother than had his father or either of his aunties, but like them, he had been raised in an atmosphere completely devoid of any reference to Korean culture. Otherwise Kai’s ancestry, back as far as these things could be traced, was hearty European peasant stock, and he came from a longer line of white farmers than had Old McDonald. As for his grandmother, she insisted on plowing through her life as if she couldn’t even point to Asia on a map,
