Javier was left alone so many times in his childhood that he developed a deep hatred of himself. "I have this deep-seated hatred of myself, and what I need to know and learn is to love myself," Javier says. If you don't love yourself, it makes the loneliness last longer, according to Dr. David Perry.
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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