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“To have spent my life holding my hands in tightly hidden fists. To try to understand what it would mean now to hold them open. I have always felt ashamed at being witnessed in the act of wanting something I could not have”
Jennifer S. Cheng
“Children of immigrants take their house wherever they go, its sounds patter and shake like a drawer full of dishes, cups, spoons.”
Jennifer S. Cheng, House A
“For homeland is something embalmed in someone else’s memory, or it is a symbol, both close to the heart and a stranger you reach for in the middle of the night.”
Jennifer S. Cheng, House A

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