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239: What if a single decision led to a spiral of loss?

This Is Actually Happening

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The Trauma of Coming to America

My mother is from a very impoverished country in the Caribbean. She grew up with five siblings, and she is the only one of her siblings that has a different father. My mom always tells me the story about how she met my dad. They actually met when she was walking home. He walked up to her and the first line was, you know, what's your sign? So my dad is actually a Scorpio.

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