'Beautiful Country' looks back on a young Chinese girl's undocumented childhood
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You Should Avoid Saying and Doing Because Family Was Without Documents
In the us, my mother's first job was at a sweat shop in chinatown. And it was there, really, that i discovered that i myself could learn english just through books. There was this constant fear and constant messaging that we could be sent home. I was attuned to my mother's every move pretty much the minute we landed at j f k.
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