There is an old man who owns his own bagel shop in New York City. He makes the bagels kosher so he gets a lot of business from his own jewish community. He also sees bankers right before they head off to work, tourists looking looking for the authentic New York morning experience and other ordinary sorts of people who want a good bagel for whatever reason. He greets every one of them with a smile and a “hello”, sometimes in english and sometimes in yiddish. They know him as the friendly man who makes and sells bagels, but he’s known darker times. He was born in Poland where him and his loved ones were stuffed on trains and awoken to the stench of burning bodies. He was starved and parched near to death, causing his bones to remain weak. One
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They failed, so the drug lord avenged himself by killing both of them and attempting to kill their whole family too. As their daughter, she was his top priority. She was unable to go through the process of earning citizenship to the U.S. since she would be dead by the time she got over. She managed to escape of the border, and moved to Los Angeles, California where she had a chance of finding peace. She earned a job as a waitress at an expensive restaurant, made friends and joined a local church. She volunteered to help children without parents and took part in an environmental protection program. All this time, she lived in fear of being discovered and deported. After eighteen years fear, she hears the news that her parents’ killer was locked in a high max prison. She has lost her whole family and found a home for herself in Los Angeles, but it doesn’t feel right to hide any longer. She makes an appointment with a lawyer and asks for her help in court. At certain point she is sure she’ll be deported, but the judge and jury take her outstanding performance for the last eighteen years into account. She is granted cancelation of removal. She continues her life of caregiving and goes to school to become a doctor. She goes to sleep with a feeling of
They failed, so the drug lord avenged himself by killing both of them and attempting to kill their whole family too. As their daughter, she was his top priority. She was unable to go through the process of earning citizenship to the U.S. since she would be dead by the time she got over. She managed to escape of the border, and moved to Los Angeles, California where she had a chance of finding peace. She earned a job as a waitress at an expensive restaurant, made friends and joined a local church. She volunteered to help children without parents and took part in an environmental protection program. All this time, she lived in fear of being discovered and deported. After eighteen years fear, she hears the news that her parents’ killer was locked in a high max prison. She has lost her whole family and found a home for herself in Los Angeles, but it doesn’t feel right to hide any longer. She makes an appointment with a lawyer and asks for her help in court. At certain point she is sure she’ll be deported, but the judge and jury take her outstanding performance for the last eighteen years into account. She is granted cancelation of removal. She continues her life of caregiving and goes to school to become a doctor. She goes to sleep with a feeling of