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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

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Morales was released after 17 days, given a second chance through the DACA policy ( Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ) as well as a green card petition filed by her mother, who gained legal status in 2004 after marrying a U.S. She left her job, withdrew every cent of her 401(k), and bought her father’s Peruvian restaurant, El Gordo.

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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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My dad has always enjoyed days spent swimming in the ocean, followed by hearty dinners at nice restaurants. By the time I started needing deodorant, I could legally drive.) That night we went to the indoor pool, ate an early dinner at the lobby restaurant and piled into the big hotel beds to watch TV.

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