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More about me.

As mentioned before, my name is Il-Sung Sato. I was born in 1986 in Baltimore, Maryland, to a Japanese father and English mother, who met through Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church - it's a hell of a story, and sadly one that I've not taken the time to hear often enough from my parents. From the age of 2 I grew up in London with my 3 younger siblings; two sisters and a brother. I don't want to put too much about them on here without their permission, so for now I will only say they are a kind, quirky and loving bunch. If you ever get the chance to get to know one of them I highly recommend it. We lived the majority of our young lives in Northwest London. Mum would mostly stay home and do her best to wrangle 4 increasingly unruly kids into some semblance of order, dad would go to work for a Japanese company that asked unreasonable hours. Somehow they made it work, and while there were a few mishaps along the way, I now realise as an adult myself that th
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I was here.

A strange thing happens when you think you may have a fatal illness. All the silly things you ever thought were important melt away and your left with only a handful that you find are truly important. It sounds like Hollywood dross, like the overly dramatic end of American Beauty, but as of a few weeks ago I came to realise it was all too true. But before we get into that, maybe I should introduce myself. My name is Il-Sung Sato. At the time of writing this (August 2019) I'm 32, blessed with an amazing wife who I'm convinced, after over 10 years together, is my soul mate (otherwise how could she put up with me :P?), and an amazing son who will turn 1 in approximately 2 weeks. They are my absolute everything. I want to spend the rest of my days with them - telling my wife just how amazing she is, my son just how much he changed me, and tell both of them that they are both perfect just the way they are. Sadly, I may have MND (ALS), a fatal neurological disease that
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