Javier was the valedictorian of his school in Salvadoran town. He says a local shopkeeper tricked him into fetching gasoline from an item that doesn't exist. "It just broke me down," he says, adding: "I'm not a little annoying kid, I'm an adult" The story ends with Javier's mother standing up for him and being inducted into the man's club.
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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