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My Family’s Slave

Por: The Atlantic World May 22, 2023

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She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was. (Chinese) (Tagalog)Alex Tizon passed away in March. He was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author of Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self. For more about Alex, please see .The ashes filled a black plastic box about the size of a toaster. It weighed three and a half pounds. I put it in a... + full article



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