By virtue of your role as mother, wife, and immigrant, the self-exploration that benefited me in college was not a privilege extended to you, at least not unless you upended your entire world again and risked losing the community you had created in an isolating new country. It brings me so much shame to consider now if there was a part of you that held this against me, jealous that you had to lose everything to make certain choices for yourself, while I had the privilege of knowing I’d still have the support of my friends if I walked away. And, although it was you who made a decision to search
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