Lucy Ton That ’26
Lucy Ton That—was born, probably around
9:00 pm, on October 2nd, 2003 at Brigham
and Women’s Hospital in Boston,
Massachusetts. Her mother will recall that it
was too late to be served dinner at the
hospital. The parents were restless and
hungry. Lucy will be a child born out of
hunger. At 9:57 pm on August 7th, 2022,
behind the steering wheel on the Yankee
Division Highway, Lucy will be born again,
a child born of hunger. Lucy will miss the
times when she was a proper
disappointment. It is so painful to know that
your achievements are your parents’
sustenance. It will be painful when you get
into College and everyone is proud because
they expected it. It will be painful to bring
him home and realize that he is the
archetype of their dreams. It will be painful
to know that you’re a faithful re-do child,
for your hungry, guilty parents to feast on. A
friend will later text you the link to an
Andrea Long Chu article and it will
obliterate your self-comfort. There is really
only one craving that the mixed Asian
invariably carries in their body, and it is
not the hunger for cultural memory1. I’m hungry too.
1Andrea Long Chu, “The Mixed Asian Metaphor” (September 2022).
