What Influenced Coming to the United States? A, How Old Were You When You Were 16?

My father's an immigrant from india, and i've been back there numerous times. There is something about being in a context where there's such disparities between extreme wealth and extreme poverty. You read those passages so differently because you can imagine him walking down the street in mumbai or some other impoverished area. I was surprised at the certainty with which people make plans ndn say that they were going to do x, y and z. That understanding of i could make a plan, and for whatever reason it may not come to pass has been really interesting to me.

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