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C Story / Rie Hasuda Moore

COFFEE

WIFE,

COFFEE

LIFE

O riginally, I’m from Kyoto, Japan. Kyoto myself that I would return to the US in the near fu-

ture. Because of this trip, when I had to decide which
is the old capital of Japan and the cul-
tural influence is still deep there. Even
though gender equality is getting better college to attend, I decided to go to the US.
I moved to Seattle in 2002. Back then Star-
in Japan, there are still some old gender issues we bucks was famous in Seattle and Japan. I didn’t like
can see today. the taste of coffee when I was a kid, but I started
My grandfather worked at the US military base drinking coffee when I came to the US. As you
in Japan, so my mother was pretty open-minded about know, Starbucks’ speciality is sweet coffee, so I
studying abroad. My dad was always travelled around learned it this way. I regularly went to get a coffee
the world for business, so traveling to different coun- at Starbucks and started dreaming about working
tries was normal for our family. When I was in high in the coffee industry. I applied to work at Star-
school, my parents didn’t mind having me skip a mid- bucks and other coffee shops occasionally, but
term exam to take me to Boston. It was the first time because I didn’t have any work experience with
when I had a lot of culture shock and I promised coffee, I never got hired.

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