My journey began in a small farm town in the midwest. As a young girl I was scared of everything and was ridiculed as the only Japanese-American, yet somewhere deep inside I was aware of intuition and strength, a butterfly in a cocoon. When I was voted Homecoming Queen in H.S., I knew the tides were turning, but asked, 'why don't I feel that I deserve it?' - At that moment, it became my life quest to break out of the cocoon.