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A journey home: in 1974, Lorenza Calpotura left the Philippines to work as a nurse's aide in the U.S. The remittances she sent back to her family began her son's journey to America. (To the Point).
It came through a friend or a relative, frequently in a brown manila envelope stamped "Esteva Financial Services." Once a month, my father received a few thousand pesos in a remittance from my mother who worked two jobs in her adopted home of San Fmncisco, Califbrnia--taking care of an elderly Russian couple during the day and working as a nurse's aide at night. Those were days of heightened anticipation for the Calpotura kids: Is this the time for a new pair of Adidas soccer shoes? Or a new Voit basketball just like what the Lazatin kids--our neighbors next door--got for their birthdays? Or maybe we can finally get our 1954 yellow-and-white Chevy Bel-Air with pointy ...
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