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East-West Legacy

A Smoking Gun Behind the Screen of Migration

My father kept his family secrets, with consequences he could never admit

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Aimee Liu
May 22, 2022
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I suspect that every family keeps secrets. That’s why they’re a staple of family stories. I might go so far as to say they’re the reason we tell family stories at all: to expose and decode those secrets. But when families are divided by migration, cultural differences, and language barriers, secrets take on added significance, especially for those charg…

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