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The Importance of Being Different
My mom's mother left Seoul to come live with us in Kansas when she was 19. She didn't know any English or anyone else so it wasn't easy for my mom to feel like she could fit in years later. I can look back now and see how my mom shaped the life of our family in ways that were unique to her culture but then we didn't know the difference between a Korean tradition and an American one. My mom seemed as American as all the other kids moms we adored her the way little girls do. Manhattan is a beautiful mosaic of races personalities and people who remind me of my mom and grandmother, writes Kim Ji-yeon.
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