In the writing of this, I learned to view the kid as how you just described them as a superhero for 20 years from the ages of nine till 29. I saw this kid as this helpless pushover who put people at risk. And so I was blaming him and hating him for having done what he did. But gosh, this is a big question, but it's kind of like what has worked for you in terms of learning to love yourself?
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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