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Sep 5, 20198 min read
No More Wandering
The person I am today is not even close to the person I was 20 years ago, and I’m proud of that...
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Aug 17, 20198 min read
A Long Walk from Yesterday
In fact, I was 16th in the rankings, including my father’s children from his two older wives, who each had six children before...
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Aug 15, 20199 min read
The Sound of Hope
That year, there was a massacre in an eastern village. Nearly 600 were killed with sprays of bullets and machetes...
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Aug 12, 20197 min read
The Choice to Live
At the time, my father was unemployed and my mother was the teen-mom stereotype. They were already burdened with a daughter before me...
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Jul 16, 20197 min read
Woman Within
My father, a labor union leader who was tangled up in domestic politics, married at the young age of 17. But how could he not?...
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Jul 15, 20196 min read
A World of My Own
I grew up watching how hard my father worked to earn bread for us. Because he was a mason, my father spent his days under the hot sun...
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Jul 9, 20198 min read
Without the Vows
By Georgia, my parents got divorced. After seeing their marriage decay, I stopped believing in love. I stopped believing that I would be...
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Jul 3, 20197 min read
Not My Plan
We were Turkish, and like the other Turkish families in Germany, my sister and I were taught to be responsible and helpful...
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Jun 12, 20198 min read
It Starts After the Fall
I fell on my face so many times I lost count, but the thing that made my life different was that I refused to stay down...
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May 18, 20196 min read
All the Adventure
From an early age, I showed an interest in becoming a police officer, or rather, I became interested in adventure and excitement...
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Apr 24, 20198 min read
Someday Soon, Venezuela
My country is destroyed—people have died of hunger, died from a lack of medicine, or simply have been killed. Thanks to a dictatorship...
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Apr 10, 20196 min read
As the Fog Clears
My childhood was full of laughter, smiles, and love...I thought back then that nothing could bring me down...
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Mar 29, 20197 min read
Ever After
I grew up in Taiwan, South Korea, and Hawaii, floating back and forth between the three places to see my father who was an influential...
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Mar 27, 20197 min read
You Have to Startup Somewhere
My young whirring mind was as sharp as a whetstone, always looking to gain more knowledge. I was fascinated by how things worked...
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Mar 18, 20197 min read
A Hundred Years, a Million Memories
At 100 years old, I’ve roamed the earth longer than many. I watched the Prohibition, Elvis Presley, and over a dozen presidents come and...
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Mar 13, 20196 min read
Cop or Criminal
With so little to do, teenagers hung out and partied in the barns. Life in our community was slow—with the exception of the one...
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Mar 11, 20197 min read
If It Is Meant to Be
Sometimes our plans are not “our” plans. Life has a funny way of showing you that. Buckle up, because you’re in for a wild story...
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Mar 7, 20197 min read
Survival Is Only the Beginning
There are some days that stay in our memory longer than others. They are often the turning points in our journey: when something...
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Mar 6, 20198 min read
The Missing Pieces
. My mom moved us to Detroit, Michigan where she later married her second husband, a man who, unfortunately, would beat her...
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Mar 5, 20196 min read
Beyond a Name
My biological father only stayed in the picture for a few months before leaving. Since then, it was like my mother cropped him out...
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