Javier says he became introverted after his mom left him. He felt like it was too hurtful to do things with her when she wasn't around. Javier: "I think going back to when I was five, I learned to grow up"
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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