I woke up in anticipation of what the day would hold. What would it be like? Would it be like I stepped out of China into America? That…
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Yes, it was me. I will fully take responsibility for it. I made the executive decision…
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I greeted the next day with a cup of instant milk tea. Um, so that was different. If…
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I’m thinking that my sunglasses were the reason why. I was alone for the first time in days and no one was staring….
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We were squished into a teeny tiny hotel foyer with our luggage in the city of Beijing, trying to envision what the hotel rooms above us would look like. When I say teeny tiny, I mean…
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In August of 1950, my mother was approaching her first birthday. She was oblivious to the hustle and bustle in the home and the tension that was mounting…
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My mom called and said my aunt, who lives in Seoul, wants to pick me up at the airport. My response: “What aunt?”…
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It was a cold winter morning. The sun had yet to rise. I was bundled up in a blanket sitting at the kitchen table…
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I know! Weird question for sure, but walk and talk with me through this. Daran and I had a crazy idea that we would build a house…
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My 20s were a crash course in learning all the things my parents neglected to teach me or I neglected to learn. Some of those lessons were critical and some of them were not so critical.
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