"Despite assimilating culturally, however, our Korean features were often markers of our 'otherness.' Judged by outward physical markers, we must justify and explain our presence in Minnesota, answering the often-asked question, 'So, where are you from?' HERE answers that question. "

It would be 57 years before Sister Justina found out her birth name and learned why her mother abandoned her in a basket outside an orphanage.