“Sometimes people can be mean, yeah?” said Mrs. Wu. “Shout at us, insult us, treat us as less than. It’s not easy. It’s stressful, me and Dada, we feel it, we’ve suffered. But I know something nobody else knows: that no matter what bad things happen, I already won. I am in New York City with my daughter. My secret is that I am the luckiest person in the world.”

