As a young girl, I remember joining my mother on the bus during her journey to work quite often. She would tell me stories about the struggle of our family in Peru and how she, just seventeen when she arrived in America, was responsible to work hard and help those she left behind.
My mother entered the country as the nanny and housekeeper of a young couple from her native Lima. After marrying my father at the age of twenty, she kept working as a housekeeper and it’s a job that she holds until this day. She taught me never to be ashamed of where I came from or who...
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