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...when Okonjo-Iweala’s family insisted that she live with an aunt in Boston, instead of in a Harvard dormitory, she refused...
...University of Michigan. He became a specialist in rehabilitation and pain medicine, and her mother owned a women's clothing store. Education was highly valued in the family, as was independence. After Rhee finished sixth grade, her parents sent her to South Korea to live with an aunt and attend a Korean school, a harrowing experience for a child in a strange land with limited skills in its language. When she returned a year later, her parents sent her to a private school because they found the public schools lacking...
...notion that being able to feed your family means leaving the Philippines is a message kids are quick to internalize. Kay C Mendoza, who never knew her father and whose mother has been working overseas since she was five, lives in Mabini with her siblings. Her aunt lives nearby and checks in on them daily. She has a typical 13-year-old's concerns about gossip and boyfriends. But Mendoza is also already planning her career overseas. "I'm going to work hard so my mother can come home," Mendoza says...
...There's the aunt of the friend of a young hotel clerk who lives across the street from an old graveyard that was bulldozed by the Soviets. She's seen white-robed figures drifting in and out of the place late of an evening. "As far as I know," says Krell Lomakin, the clerk who relates the story straight faced, "she's not crazy." A barber, happily snipping away at my hair one evening, volunteered how she'd often seen a former resident of the building, an old woman, perched on a stuffed chair in the corner next...
...Dung's aunt? What was her reaction? "Oh," says Dung after he hangs up. "She asked if I was earning any royalties...