When she stood up for me, I knew that she liked me more than any of the other strangers. And what that did for me is that I began to trust her more and more. She had the exact same name as my mom, Patricia, as my real mom. Her temperament was very similar to my mom's as well. It took us years to get to that trust level. Here is this stranger, Patricia, who I'm getting closer and closer with as the days go on.
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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