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Diego lasluisadToSee My Father Againreams are definitely a part of our lives, the same as happiness and sadness.We need to understand that these kinds of feelings are the essence of ourlives. Some days, I just feel how beautiful life can be because I have the fortune ofsharing a new day with my loved ones, and I have the opportunity of showing thepeople I take care of that I can count on them, too.It is wonderful how you can fill your soul, your heart, your life itself, withsimple things. Every time I go to the park with my family for a walk, we do notneed words to communicate because I can feel their souls, and they can feel mine.It is because I can understand the desires, hopes and dreams for the future of mywife and my two daughters, and they can also guess my dreams.I still remember that beautiful time, my childhood. Since I grew up withonly the affection and kindness of my father, we came to be not only father andson; we came to be great friends. We used to take long walks, just my father andI. We talked about everything, and most of the time we talked without words,exactly the same way I do now with my daughters. We talked and thought abouteverything, but we never talked about a separation—living far away from eachother, in different countries.Unfortunately, life wanted me to be separated from my father. Twelveyears have passed. My father is 75 years old. Sometimes I think that the charactersin this story have been changed. My father has become my son, and I have becomethe father. My father often does not understand reasons; he is sometimes just likea child. He wants me to come back home, come back close to him, and take thoselong walks again, just he and I, as in the old times.I still remember the day he told me,“Son, I am waiting for you. I justhope that when you decide to comeback, it will not be too late.” It wasHe wants me tocomeBACK home, comeBACK close to him.Being Together79diego lasluisa
the moment when I felt the deepest sadness in my heart. How could he have saidsuch a thing? My father has definitely become a child, and I have to take care ofhim.Unfortunately, I cannot go back to my country because, as with millionsof immigrants, I am still waiting for my American dream of getting a GreenCard. Then I will be able to realize my dream for the future—and have one moreopportunity to see my father again and have a long walk with him, talking in thelanguage of our hearts.diego lasluisa Being Together80Diego Lasluisa was born in Ecuador and has lived in New York for 10 years. Hestudies at Hunter College’s SPELL Program, where Ruby Taylor MacBride ishis teacher. He says, “When I decided to come to New York I knew that thingscould be a little tough at the beginning. . . . I have been studying English for thelast two years, and believe me, this is the key to opening the door to a new andpromising future in this wonderful country.”
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CONTENTSINTRODUCTIONgallatin alumna
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amanda rodriguez An Angel Without W
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khady gueye The Best Job I Have Eve
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IntroductionNext year, for the 10th
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Abbey Fenbert was a student-teacher
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thrilling and incredibly humbling.
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Introduction15Author
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LIVING INNEW YORK CITYkee fong liu
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Josephine LamLifesaverlate one nigh
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elationship to the black slaves who
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Colin TriumphDo I Fit the Profile?W
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Elena TarneaA MemorableWork Experie
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neela arnoldyGettingLostears ago, I
Page 30 and 31: YanMing WuNew York in My Eyesnew Yo
Page 32 and 33: New York City was torn apart.Our sp
Page 34 and 35: Rose CovingtonRebirthon the first o
Page 36 and 37: Living in NYC35Author
Page 38 and 39: yacouba yeo The Hunt 38stacy (xiulu
Page 40 and 41: odies of animals. The last animal w
Page 42 and 43: Ambiorix E. BaretA Passion for the
Page 44 and 45: elif yigitMy Great-Grandpawhen I we
Page 46 and 47: Geysha Prescott Hassan#50409in Pana
Page 48 and 49: Qian (Michelle) YangSecret Pathsigr
Page 50 and 51: Vasyl BarabashBorn in Ukrainethe vi
Page 52 and 53: Cecilia RichettiI Am an IslanderI a
Page 54 and 55: sky and said that to my grandma. Fo
Page 56 and 57: Amanda RodriguezAn Angel Without Wi
Page 58 and 59: Khazanah AwadMy Mom WhenShe Was a L
Page 60 and 61: TELLING TALESTelling Tales59Authorn
Page 62 and 63: modou sambFalse Teethhis name is Ha
Page 64 and 65: Olga TseytlinahHeWas a Stone Mane w
Page 66 and 67: Lina Wu De ChecoThe Ugly Pencilone
Page 68 and 69: Sybil SCOTTYes, My Pen Can DanceWhe
Page 70 and 71: would not meet again. But they met.
Page 72 and 73: Efim KrishtalHaikuCloud in the sky,
Page 74 and 75: point. “We will find out who did
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Page 78 and 79: with my grandmother because they tr
Page 82 and 83: N.S.Thanksgiving Dayas a family, we
Page 84 and 85: Hanako SakagamiSakurafor the Japane
Page 86 and 87: Victor DeSantiagoPopsI remember a d
Page 88 and 89: Is from this summer at the beachMak
Page 90 and 91: to her, saying she knew I was small
Page 92 and 93: Finding Encouragement91AuthorFINDIN
Page 94 and 95: Last Friday, my husband came back h
Page 96 and 97: ana riosMy First Job,Far Away from
Page 98 and 99: mario perez“Take the Test in Span
Page 100 and 101: khady gueyeThe Best Job I Have Ever
Page 102 and 103: ming xian (cindy) linHelping People
Page 104 and 105: gabriela florestMyFirst Giftoday’
Page 106 and 107: ashanti robinsonEncourage YourselfE
Page 108 and 109: situation. I felt sad.Mr. Baker not
Page 110 and 111: Gaining Perspective109Author
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Page 116 and 117: Kenneth PauljajouteReflections on t
Page 118 and 119: obert dolkowskiThe Sniffermy mother
Page 120 and 121: florence choiceOde to My Shiny Shoe
Page 122 and 123: Frankie mercadoOccasionallyOccasion
Page 124 and 125: Who am I? Who is the real me? I hav
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Page 128 and 129: PERSEVERINGlisa ng Journey to Freed
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water. The ring of light over Hong
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my mother. I told him, “Leave me.
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town. Perhaps my mother left the to
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and not harm my pets. I didn’t wa
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and listened to the radio all night
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minimum. Slightly embarrassed. Stil
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cynthia sotoiMiguel,I Want to Thank
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he had pulled my wife and son from
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College of Staten IslandAdult Learn
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