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  The backyard erupted with cheers when the team across the net missed the volleyball that my 62-year-old father had…

As we gathered around the cake and she blew out her candles, I became aware of the one piece that was missing: my mom. Just a few days before my sister’s birthday party, my mom left our home in the Philippines to begin our family’s new life in the United States.

“Quien lo hubiera creído?” (Who would have thought?), she says, and suddenly I’m getting the story I had missed years before.

My mom translates: “She says it may take a while to remember everything.”…More words from my grandmother, and a laugh. “She doesn’t think her story is very interesting!”

Emilio and his partner Kale arrived in the US from Cuba through two very different routes. Reunited, they are free from persecution for their sexuality.

Eugene Peba made it to America. Now he’s waiting to hear if he can stay.