Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and
hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and
how much alcohol has been consumed.
[Editor's Note: at the point of the conversation, there was a lot of
hilarity in the way Tabata - san described the scene and a lot of laughing, so it's difficult to gauge
how much of this was a joke, and whether there was any seriousness in the discussion.]