By Grace Chhetri, The Paideia School
My life for the past six years has been Nepali on the weekends and American on the weekdays.
My parents are, and always will be, convinced that if I follow a Nepali crowd then I will not care about my grades. That somehow I will forget the sacrifices they made for me, and I will put a cigarette to my lips and sprinkle disrespect over them.
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