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Michael Kenji “Maka” Takahara's avatar

I love your comics because for me, they are a journal of your life. It's such a great thing to document the bitter and the sweet that life is. We all lose and gain people, places, things every day because change is always happening. And the only thing we really truly control, my wife told me this morning, is how much we love. I love that and your comics remind me of that. Thank you! Peace, maka

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Lian Cho's avatar

Ah thank you so much! This is really really sweet to hear <3

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Mabel's avatar

[Parker Posey voice] You Want to Live in Taiwan!?

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Lian Cho's avatar

HAHAHA STOP IT NOW!! Someone needs to rip White Lotus from your hands baby girl

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paolo villanueva's avatar

ha good one Mabel

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Shane Tolentino's avatar

This is so beautiful, Lian. Deeply felt too. I just finished my move to a new neighborhood in Chicago after living with my high school best friend for the last four years. Bittersweet to walk past the tulips blooming on our block for the last time. <3

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Kelly Wood's avatar

How lovely and sad. New adventures await ❤️

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Tara Y's avatar

This brought back memories of when I left New York (sans a moving truck though). Thanks for your illustrations and for sharing the poem.

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John Nez's avatar

I remember that last day in NYC for me… a scorching mess of a day.

The heat was unbearable… as I looked at a map of the Pacific Northwest and Seattle.

That’s where I was moving to… and I just bathed in the cool green rain like a salvation.

I’d been in NYC for 5 years and it had been fun… but enough is enough.

Oh, and the landlord had doubled out rent to an astronomical figure.

Seattle was having a downturn and everything was cheap…

So in fact it was the smartest move I could have made, since now I had an agent.

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H Maria Armijo's avatar

Thanks for sharing. It's very bittersweet. Congratulations on your new adventure.

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Yao Xiao's avatar

Whoaa😭😭😭crying too

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Lian Cho's avatar

Miss you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🥲

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Sarah Allen's avatar

Beautiful.

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Alex Dearden's avatar

This is lovely. Thanks for this. Reminds me of when I left London all on my own after 9 years there. It was bittersweet but mostly sad. It inspires me to make my own comic about it.

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Lisa Hooker's avatar

I remember leaving N.Y., best thing I even did, you know how to do a “New York Minute”!

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