Wittman and Tasa visit Sutro's, and have their wedding breakfast at the Palace of Fine Arts, where he recites a story to her as a wedding gift. It is a saga in the tradition of the Heroic Couple on the Battlefield, which, he warns her, will turn her Chinese. While he has access to a car, Wittman decides to visit his mother, Ruby, in Sacramento, and introduce Tasa to her.
Wittman has forgotten it is mah jong day, and Tasa is confronted with all his Aunties, as well as his mother. Wittman's Aunties, his mother's close friends, were all Flora Dora dancers with Wittman's mother during World War II. Wittman discovers Popo, his grandmother, is missing. Popo may or may not actually be Wittman's.....
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