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[dramatic music]

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[footsteps rustling]

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[soft music]

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My name is Mugeni.
I'm coming from Congo.

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I was born in a place
called Murambya.

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Our village was so green.

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Everybody was a farmer.

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Doesn't matter
if you are rich or poor.

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We share all we have.

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[soft music]

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I grow up knowing

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there is a people
who doesn't like us,

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my tribe, Banyamulenge.

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I always think,
if I meet with them,

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they're gonna do
something bad to me

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'cause I'm different to them.

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One night,
my family was sleeping--

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all my family, my father,
my siblings, my mom,

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but when we sleep,
we heard the noise

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like the bomb, the shooting.

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It feels so close
to where I live.

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They was burning the houses.

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We feel like we're gonna die
inside this house.

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We just ran.
Ran to different directions.

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[screams and gunshots]

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[tense music]

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I was thinking
it's two choice.

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I'm gonna live or die.

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[panting]

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I was 14 and I was
all by myself in the forest.

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I find the guy
who was running, hiding,

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saving his life, same as me.

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I didn't know any place
besides my village.

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I just continue following him.

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He has the child who was
the same age I was.

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I didn't know the guy.

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He just take me as his child.

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We were sleeping in forest,

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sleeping for, like, a month.

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We didn't eat.

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We just sleep there
on the leaves.

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We didn't have nothing

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beside God.

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[somber music]

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It was just thinking
about my family.

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I didn't know
what to tell to myself.

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Then the man told us
we are in different country.

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When we got to Kenya,

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they guy, he told me,
"Oh, okay, I have nothing.

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Just try to find
where you can go."

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He left me.

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I didn't judge him.

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He saved my life.

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I was really scared

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seeing people I'd never seen.

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I didn't even know
if they speak Swahili

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'cause I've never been
in Kenya.

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We have the same color
of skin,

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but they are different people.

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I was like, "I have to go

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to find church
for Congolese people."

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They showed me
where the church was.

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Then I sit near to this girl.

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She was, like, 22 or 20.

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Her name is Esparance,

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and I told her everything.

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She take care of me,
everything.

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After a couple months,

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when people was
inside the church praying,

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Kenyan police came to say,
"Oh, you can't be over here."

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They took her
to the refugee camp.

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They decided
to take everybody,

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all Congolese.

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I don't know the reason why.
I wasn't there.

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[soft, eerie music]

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I didn't know
what to do after that.

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I used to dream, like,
seeing blood all over.

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People got murdered.
Like, all the baddest stuff.

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Like, screaming,
calling my brother,

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calling my mom.

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It was, like, feeling,
like, so real to me.

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[crying softly]

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It was the worst part ever.

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Dream somebody you love
and then don't see them.

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I would just ask,
like, "Why, God?

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"Why'd that happen to me?

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"I'm alone.

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I don't have a family
no more."

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The other days
feel like it's okay.

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You want to make
yourself stronger,

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'cause you can't
just tell your heart

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to be negative all the time.

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You want to build your heart
to make stronger.

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[hopeful music]

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I find this
United Nation program.

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It helps with refugee

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to be resettled
to a different country.

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I told them, "I'm alone.
I don't have nobody."

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They ask, most of the time,
the same questions,

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just to make sure
what you said is true.

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You never know
when you're gonna be approved.

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It took two years.

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The day I find out
I was coming to United State,

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I didn't know if I should be
excited or not,

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'cause I was like,
"Oh, I'm coming from Congo

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"to Kenya, go to USA.

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I don't know nobody
over there."

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When I landed to USA
in Michigan,

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I met people
who was waiting for me.

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In the morning, I woke up.

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[laughs]
I didn't speak English,

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so I was just,
like, looking at them.

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I didn't know any words
that I can use.

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I was just, like, thinking,

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how I'm gonna talk
to these people,

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how I'm gonna talk
to my foster mom.

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I don't know
what to say to them.

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The first meal I had
with them, it was eggs.

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That's all the thing
I know how to say, eggs,

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so I was eating eggs
every day.

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[laughs]

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Telling my foster mom,

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I want eggs, eggs, eggs.

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It was like a song for eggs.
[laughs]

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It didn't take me very long
to learn English.

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I was in school.

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I didn't talk about
where I came from.

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They know I came from Africa.

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Some, they can't
understand my accent,

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which was, like, hard
for me to make friends

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'cause I'd be like, "Oh,

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maybe if I talk,
they're gonna laugh at me."

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I was just keeping to myself.

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My foster mom,
she search on Google

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trying to find me
a Congolese church.

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One day,
she dropped me off over there.

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I was very surprised to seen
people I know in Michigan.

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I met one family
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the neighbor in Kenya
where I was living.

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I made them a friend.

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I told the father
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"I'm trying--if I can find
my family

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"'cause I'm here lonely."

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He was like, "Oh, okay.

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Well, I know people,
so I can try to help you."

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I'll be, like, asking him
all the time,

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"Have you heard anything
about my family?"

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One day, he called me.

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He said,

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"Someone told me your mom
and siblings,

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"they live in Uganda."

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"Are you serious?"
I ask him so many times.

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"Are you serious?
Are you serious about it?

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Who told you?"

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My heart was very speechless.

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She's alive.

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It was three years.

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It was three years
since I have talked to her,

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I've heard her voice.

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I was like,

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"I can't wait
to say something to her."

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She was very shocked.

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"Where are you?
How'd you get there?

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Like, how'd you get to USA?"

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I was like, "It's a miracle."

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She ask me,
"Where is your dad?

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"I haven't seen your dad

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since the time we ran out
from the war."

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[soft dramatic music]

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In 2019, in summer,

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I saw my mom
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in five years.

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My mom looked beautiful,
more than I remember.

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Uh...

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[laughs]

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I can't cry.

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Like, my tears was,
like, stuck.

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Like, I have this happiness
inside of me.

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It makes me feel like

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where I was broken,
is got fixed.

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My mom, she said something
to my foster mom.

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She said, "Mugeni,
she's my daughter,

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"but she'll always be
yours as well.

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So, Mugeni,
she have two moms now."

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Not all people can say that.

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It was, like, so kind
for her to say that nice words

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to somebody you've never met.

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So I live in Michigan
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[laughs]

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I work in a factory

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for the automotive industry.

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I work overtime
so that I can send the money

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to Mom in Africa

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so they can have
a better life.

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I helped my mom
to start a business in Uganda,

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and then I wanna help

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to start more businesses
over there.

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As I grow,
I'm taking care of my family

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'cause I became like a father.

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He's the one who was
gonna do what I'm doing,

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but I'm doing it for him.

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It just makes me proud
to do it.

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I learned to be strong
when things are hard.

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I learned from my mom.

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[soft music]