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Recently, I asked: what jobs did your parents work to get u to where u are?
Your response was powerful. Now, more than ever, immigrants do the toughest work. Clean, cook, toil in fields, factories
This is my tribute to all our parents who helped us rise
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Your response was powerful. Now, more than ever, immigrants do the toughest work. Clean, cook, toil in fields, factories
This is my tribute to all our parents who helped us rise
lat.ms/3a4zC1B
Many children of immigrants make a pledge early on to care for our parents, to be their translators, their personal assistants, their protectors. In some cases, their retirement fund. When you consider how far they’ve brought us, in a single generation, it’s the least we can do.
Several thousand of u shared ur parents story with me. Some shared memories u hadn’t spoken of in years: the smell of engine oil on ur dad’s shirt, the cuts & bruises on ur mom’s hands, the sound of the sewing machine rumbling through the house day & night bit.ly/30tQRpL 
