country is not safe anymore’ type. As my home country, Venezuela started developing serious issues, socially, economically and politically, my family and I decided to make a huge change in our lives by starting from scratch in the United States. It was not an easy decision to make as we had already settled our entire lives there, but the safety and comfort we would be receiving was not interchangeable.
As the plane took off, I felt tense with a knot in my throat, as I was leaving a country that…
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