There is research about migrant families, but children do not see it as prophecies foretold. I should have known better. I had spoken to a lot of people telling me the same things. And now here it was happening to my family, my soccer team, the world’s best. Shortly before I asked him to leave, my father had told my brother: “I am tired of living just for you and your sister. It is my turn to be happy now.” And he handled it the wrong way, totaled some people’s lives in his wake, but he was right. It was his turn to be happy. And now my mom is free to figure out what makes her happy, after
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