Diaspora Blues

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If you live long enough in a foreign land, you become like a lone molecule absorbed and assimilated into the host, your DNA retrofitted and reprogrammed for its new circumstances. I’ve been here awhile, just trying to survive and get ahead, and so it never really occurred to me that I’m not the same girl who first stepped off the plane and onto this soil. While I still don’t feel that these are “my people”, I somehow felt even more…