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On The Southern Front

AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS IN THIS COUNTRY, my parents announced that they were returning to their native country to live. Of course, we, their four daughters, understood the verb "to live" as a euphemism. My parents were going back to the Dominican Republic because that’s where they wanted to die. But my sisters and I were all too upset to be thinking of that eventual future.

Like all "children," even then in our mid-forties and early fifties, we thought of our parents’ decision as it affected us. How could they do this to us? Never mind that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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