sugar cane. and when he got there, he stayed and never really went back to china for some years. but my mother was conceived, born, and the rest of his family later on in life wasn t aware of her. my mother always wondered where her father was. i had been a trained journalist and historian, and all the above, decided there would come a day when i would retire, i retired from nbc universal, as an executive, and i decided it s time, i will spend the rest of my time searching. so we found them, 300 of my grandfather s descendants, gathered to meet 20 of us black chinese who went over to meet them, and what was so amazing was they didn t know that we even had existed, but a little story my mother had told me about her father let them know that i was truly a family member, otherwise, i couldn t have known the story. did it feel, paula, how you thought it would feel, to be there with these people whom you