At eleven years old, I knew how to hold my own bag. I knew how to stay close to my parents. I knew how to listen without understanding, how not to cry when adults spoke over my head in a language that moved too fast. My family of nine had crossed the South China Sea on a wooden fishing boat and entered a country still bleeding from a war it was desperate to forget. We arrived wi...
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