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Don’t stay up too late.” “I have to finish this essay.” “There are more important things in life,” Dad says from the doorway, speaking for the first time. I want to laugh aloud since this is the exact opposite of all they’ve told me my entire life—that school, my education, should be my number one priority. After all, it’s why they brought our family to the US. But I hold it in and say good night.
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