On the car ride home from the police station, he seems quite proud that the Canadian officers were baffled as to why their American counterparts had asked he be taken in and investigated. The following year, in 2001, my father receives a job offer in Wisconsin. It’s a good job. It pays well and the hotel where he’d work is in a city several times bigger than Harrison Hot Springs. The only logistical hurdle is a work visa, which his prospective employer tells him won’t be an issue, they do this sort of thing all the time. Then September 11 comes. Suddenly the application stalls. For months and
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