When You Go To America

          Inside my grandfather's journal I found this drawing and letter in Russian, written by my brother.  In the late 50's and early 60's, there were already discussions about going to America.  In the late 60's, my aunt Armen would come to LA to visit her cousin Sirarpi, whom she had never met.  At the start of WWI and during the Genocide, the Shishmanian siblings scattered all over the world, yet somehow kept in touch.  Sirarpi was the daughter of Thomas Shishmanian who lived in Romania.