Because we looked away in the past, does that mean we can look away now?
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Maybe that's what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you're just little bits rolling apart.
Marina BudhosTags: family america immigration
If I say a word that is angry, he explained, then I should never be surprised by the harm. And if I say something good, then it is like watching my own garden grow, and that is the greatest pleasure ever.
Marina BudhosWhen we came to America, though, we didn't know what the right thing was. Here we lived with no map. We became invisible, the people who swam in between other people's lives, bussing dishes, delivering groceries. What was wrong?
We didn't know. The most important thing, Abba said, was not to stick out. Don't let them see you. But I think it hurt him, to hide so much.
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