I didn't know what English was all about. It was just our destiny to be chosen to come to the States. We applied to the U.N. They asked us where we wanted to go. I saw the American flag that came to get us from the border. I said that's where we want to go.

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I told my kids that I don't have the education that they have right now. I didn't have the freedom that they have right now. The living conditions ? you sleep on the ground and you live day by day. Your life is in the hands of the communist regime as a slave, basically.

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