 
 <prompt> ```Answer di questions wey dey di end based on di text.

"Your first home," Laurence Yep write for im book, The Lost Garden, "go always be di one wey you go remember pass. I don dey far from am for over twenty years, but I still dey go back for my dreams." For Yep, wey im papa come from China, home na one apartment and di family grocery store for one neighborhood for San Francisco. Na there e learn about patience, hard work, and how to dey get along with neighbors.

Mr. Brown, Laurence Yep high school English teacher, dey always set high goals for im students. E be di first person wey encourage Yep to write. Di experience for that class change di direction of Yep life. At di age of 18 Yep publish im first short story, one sci-fi fantasy. E don write many books and different kinds of books since then. E don retell Chinese folk stories and write for theater. For almost all di different works wey e do, Yep, wey dey married to di children's book author Joanne Ryder, don always dey ask himself questions wey e don dey ask since e dey small pikin: Wetin e mean to be Chinese and American? Person wey belong to two cultures fit ever feel at home anywhere?

When dem ask am, "How being of a Chinese by origin don dey important to you?" Laurence Yep reply, "As pikin I bin wan be as American as possible. Then, for my early twenties, I come dey very interested for my Chinese roots. For years after that, I think say my function as a Chinese American writer na to act as bridge between two cultures. But now, I no dey so sure say e dey possible to join dem together. Compared with Asian culture, American culture dey pay more attention to individuals and competition. Di two cultures dey pull for opposite directions. So I see myself now as person wey go always dey for di border between two cultures. E dey work to my benefit as a writer because not quite fitting in dey help me be better observer."

1. Where Yep grow up?
2. Where im papa come from?
3. Wetin be di book title wey Yep dey discuss im home?
4. Who be im high school teacher?
5. E influence Yep?
6. Wetin e influence Yep to do?
7. When Yep publish im first story?
8. Im wife write also?
9. Wetin be im wife name?
10. Wetin she dey write about?
11. Mr. Brown get high goals for im students?
12. Wetin Yep compare American culture to?
13. Dem similar according to Yep?
14. Yep live for apartment or house as pikin?
15. Wetin e learn for San Francisco as pikin?
16. Wetin Yep see himself as now?
17. When Yep become interested for im Chinese roots?
18. Yep wan be more American when e dey pikin?
19. E still feel di same way now?
20. E feel say e dey possible to join American and Chinese culture?

Numbered answers:``` <response>: ```1. San Francisco
2. China
3. The Lost Garden
4. Mr. Brown
5. Yes
6. to write
7. age 18
8. Yes
9. Joanne Ryder,
10. children's books
11. Yes
12. Asian culture
13. No
14. an apartment
15. patience, hard work, and getting along with neighbors.
16. on the border between two cultures
17. early twenties,
18. Yes
19. No
20. No``` 