Dishing up some sides of gratitude with notes

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Tom Huang's grandmother with her four children in about 1939, in a passport photo taken at the China-Vietnam border. Huang's mother is second from left.
I'm thankful for the mustached old editor who made me put away my notes before I wrote.
For the young mom editor who taught me to turn articles into stories.
And for the playwright-turned-editor who helped me see scenes, and read my stories out loud.