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[tinymich]

I'm a complete softie, so this NYT article on an illegal immigrant made me tear up slightly by the time it was over. It's a total human interest piece, but I enjoyed it nonetheless, so I'm sharing.

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[msbrightside]

I was expecting Harold to have gotten deported unceremoniously, because of all I've been reading lately about immigration processes over there lately. I'm kind of tearing, too.

[tinymich]

Well, if you look at the timeline on this story, this would have happened around 1985 -- and the political climate in the US was very, very different 25 years ago. I suspect today he would have been deported. They've done it to other students (e.g. the boys from Miami-Dade). Saddening but the people in the comments show how and why this happens.

[triciaseow]

awwww... this is a better ending than i hoped for. i thought would have been deported!

[amizadai]

I know this comment come more than a year late, but I only just read the article you posted. It made me cry!

[tinymich]

I know, right? I reread it when you commented, and it really is lovely. What a powerful story. (And if only the country was still that way.)

[amizadai]

I was recently thinking about you, which is why I looked up your LJ. Specifically I remembered what you said about your self-esteem, that it was so robust and healthy that it could withstand a punch in the face every once in a while! Haha, I can't remember exactly what brought it to mind though : )

What's your twitter handle? I kinda remember following you but can't remember what it was. I know its not @tinymich though!

[tinymich]

Aw, ha! I remember writing that too -- I think the phrase is something like take your self-esteem out for a good throatpunch (that's my friend Matt's phrase) -- and I think it's in the context of the Mermaid photos where I look really stupid! Now I have to go find it.
Aha. here it is. http://tinymich.livejournal.com/237180.html

I'm mich_lim on twitter, where a lot of the other LJers are too! I didn't know you were there :)