Love Stories: Coming to America for a New Life, Thanks to a Mother’s Love

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For our Love Stories series, one Vogue writer reflects on what is received when one is sold the American Dream.

My mother gets onto a plane to America while my grandfather is dying. He has raised his children on the works of Robert Browning and Langston Hughes, taken them to tennis lessons, enrolled them into private schools, and paid for their college degrees at any institution of their choice. He is a teacher, activist, and writer with a book that is currently sitting in the Stanford University library, but even he no longer sees opportunity in Zimbabwe.

​America looks like a rainbow with multiple ends to which golden pots are kept. My mother has to hold my hand to keep me from slipping into candy aisles in awe of the variety. We are living in the basement of the home where my mother is the cleaner until she has saved enough money for us to rent a two-bedroom apartment with a lady from the Philippines, named Anita.

 

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