Tag: patience
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1,000 miles: step 61|Patience
“Isn’t a pair a fruit?” I ask my friend, as we look at yet another beautiful display at the campus library, showcasing vegetables. “Isn’t it also a vegetable?” she responds. I then realize it’s too early in the morning to discuss food groups. I like working in a small group, and am often eager to help out a friend who is stumped on an assignment. The…
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1,000 miles: step 33
Some months ago, my mother promised my half-sister a visit to El Salvador. We visited a lawyer and filed an application for permission to visit our home-country.The applications cost an entire pay stub. My mother’s salary gone in 1, 2, 3… We made an appointment at the Post Office for my brother, too. I filled…
Claudia Rojas 