"After several such phone calls, we realized our votes simply negate each other"
My mom is an avid democrat, and her mother, my grandmother is a zealous republican. Every year around election day, there are bound to be a lot of arguments between the two over their diverging views. It makes visiting complicated and sometimes awkward, but despite that, they love to debate and talk politics.
At fifty-eight, my father found himself unemployed and with no prospects.
Firoozeh's father's situation is really similar to Sundara's family, a formerly successful family reduced to farming and picking fruit. Naro also used to be really successful and had a good job, but it took him a really long time to get a job even close to as good as his old one. Many immigrants, formerly thriving in their old country, have really awful jobs as they try to learn English and adjust to work customs.
That must be so frustrating to have that education and experience and to then go somewhere else and have to start at the bottom. Good insight into those similarities.
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