The four of them are part of this group of 30 immigrants who have just successfully crossed the border. They stayed in touch for two weeks, like a few weeks, and then they stopped calling. This goodbye is the goodbye that still makes me break down whenever I think about it. "They started as strangers and they became family"
At age nine, Javier Zamora embarked on a harrowing, 3000-mile immigration journey from El Salvador to the United States. More than twenty years later, he’s finally ready to revisit that period of life and what it took for him to survive such treacherous circumstances.
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