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            "title": "This is largely being ignored but it's easily one of the biggest China news of the year.",
            "excerpt": "What China is doing with Hainan - a huge island (50 times the size of Singapore!) - is pretty extraordinary: they're basically making it into a completely different jurisdiction from the",
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            "title": "Paul Graham on why you shouldn’t write with AI:",
            "excerpt": "“In preindustrial times most people's jobs made them strong. Now if you want to be strong, you work out. So there are still strong people, but only those who choose to be. It will be the same with writing. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥",
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            "title": "Error 404: Life in a Secret Chinese Nuclear City That Was Never on the Map",
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            "excerpt": "126K likes, 5,527 comments - meli.shares on December 27, 2025: \"Trends aren’t the problem.\nBlindly following them is.\n🙈\n\nFashion used to say something about you. Now it just says you saw the same thing as everyone else. Just because everyone’s doing it…doesn’t mean it’s original.\n\nFashion didn’t disappear, individuality DID.\n👯‍♀️👯‍♀️👯👯👯‍♂️👯‍♂️\nFood for thought.\n\n(This is not a jab at the Uggs, just fascinated by this level of SAMENESS)\".",
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            "title": "(PDF) A Japanese Engineer Who Became a Taiwanese Deity: Postcolonial Representations of Hatta Yoichi",
            "excerpt": "PDF | Hatta Yoichi (1886–1942) was a Japanese engineer who designed and oversaw the construction of a massive reservoir in southern Taiwan, completed in... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate",
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            "excerpt": "A considered collection of unisex, women’s, and men’s styles made for everyday wear. Designed for layering and warmth in natural, heritage fabrics with subtle detailing.",
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            "title": "A Witness, Part II",
            "excerpt": "Editor’s Note: This year and next will see the publication of The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz. There will be ten volumes in this collectio…",
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            "excerpt": "Could ours do the same?",
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            "title": "Slavery in modern America",
            "excerpt": "- Lola was taken into a household at age 18 and treated as a slave, doing all domestic chores without pay.  \n- She followed the family from the Philippines to America on a special passport, hoping to receive an allowance they never gave her.  \n- She eventually became a U.S. citizen after the 1986 immigration amnesty, yet continued to care for the family faithfully well into old age.  \n- Even when offered freedom and a bedroom of her own, she maintained her role as carer and found meaning in looking after the family she had served for so long.  ",
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            "highlights": "I put it in a canvas tote bag and packed it in my suitcase this past July for the transpacific flight to Manila. From there I would travel by car to a rural village. When I arrived, I would hand over all that was left of the woman who had spent 56 years as a slave in my family’s household We called her Lola She was 18 years old when my grandfather gave her to my mother as a gift, and when my family moved to the United States, we brought her with us. No other word but slave encompassed the life she lived. Her days began before everyone else woke and ended after we went to bed. She prepared three meals a day, cleaned the house, waited on my parents, and took care of my four siblings and me. My parents never paid her, and they scolded her constantly My father had a law degree, my mother was on her way to becoming a doctor, and my siblings and I got good grades and always said “please” and “thank you.” We never talked about Lola. After my mother died of leukemia, in 1999, Lola came to live with me in a small town north of Seattle. I had a family, a career, a house in the suburbs—the American dream. And then I had a slave. When the Spanish arrived, in the 1500s, they enslaved islanders and later brought African and Indian slaves. The Spanish Crown eventually began phasing out slavery at home and in its colonies, but parts of the Philippines were so far-flung that authorities couldn’t keep a close eye. Tarlac province. Rice country. The home of a cigar-chomping army lieutenant named Tomas Asuncion, my grandfather Lieutenant Tom had as many as three families of utusans living on his property with the islands under Japanese occupation, he brought home a girl from a village down the road Tom approached her with an offer: She could have food and shelter if she would commit to taking care of his daughter, who had just turned 12. Lieutenant Tom went off to fight the Japanese, leaving Mom behind with Lola in his creaky house in the provinces. Lola fed, groomed, and dressed my mother in 1950, Mom married my father and moved to Manila, bringing Lola along. Lieutenant Tom had long been haunted by demons, and in 1951 he silenced them with a .32‑caliber slug to his temple My brother Arthur was born in 1951. I came next My parents expected Lola to be as devoted to us kids as she was to them. While she looked after us, my parents went to school and earned advanced degrees, joining the ranks of so many others with fancy diplomas but no jobs. Then the big break: Dad was offered a job in Foreign Affairs as a commercial analyst. The salary would be meager, but the position was in America Lola didn’t immediately acquiesce. Years later Lola told me she was terrified. “It was too far,” she said. “Maybe your Mom and Dad won’t let me go home.” what convinced Lola was my father’s promise that things would be different in America. He told her that as soon as he and Mom got on their feet, they’d give her an “allowance.” Lola could send money to her parents, to all her relations in the village In many ways she was more of a parent to me than either my mother or my father. Hers was the first face I saw in the morning and the last one I saw at night. As a baby, I uttered Lola’s name as my siblings and I grew up on this other shore, we came to see the world differently. The leap across the ocean brought about a leap in consciousness that Mom and Dad couldn’t, or wouldn’t, make Lola never got that allowance. She asked my parents about it in a roundabout way a couple of years into our life in America “How could you even ask?,” Dad responded in Tagalog. “You see how hard up we are. Don’t you have any shame?” My parents were good to my siblings and me, and we loved them they’d be affectionate to us kids one moment and vile to Lola the next I was 11 or 12 when I began to see Lola’s situation clearly. By then Arthur, eight years my senior, had been seething for a long time. He was the one who introduced the word slave into my understanding of what Lola was Having a slave gave me grave doubts about what kind of people we were, what kind of place we came from. In the old country, my parents felt no need to hide their treatment of Lola. In America, they treated her worse but took pains to conceal it “Who’s that little lady you keep in the kitchen?,” Big Jim, the Missler patriarch, once asked. A relative from back home, Dad said. Very shy. Billy Missler, my best friend, didn’t buy it. He spent enough time at our house, whole weekends sometimes, to catch glimpses of my family’s secret. He once overheard my mother yelling in the kitchen, and when he barged in to investigate found Mom red-faced and glaring at Lola, who was quaking in a corner. I came in a few seconds later. The look on Billy’s face was a mix of embarrassment and perplexity. What was that? I waved it off and told him to forget it. He’d rave about her cooking, and make her laugh like I’d never seen Lola’s travel papers had expired in 1969, five years after we arrived in the U.S. She’d come on a special passport linked to my father’s job. After a series of fallings-out with his superiors, Dad quit the consulate and declared his intent to stay in the United States. He arranged for permanent-resident status for his family, but Lola wasn’t eligible. He was supposed to send her back If the authorities had found out about Lola, as they surely would have if she’d tried to leave, my parents could have gotten into trouble, possibly even been deported. When I was 15, Dad left the family for good he deserted us kids and abandoned Mom after 25 years of marriage My mom kept herself together enough to go to work, but at night she’d crumble in self-pity and despair. Her main source of comfort during this time: Lola my mother remarried and demanded Lola’s fealty to her new husband, a Croatian immigrant named Ivan, whom she had met through a friend. Ivan had never finished high school. He’d been married four times and was an inveterate gambler who enjoyed being supported by my mother and attended to by Lola. Once, during an argument in which Mom was crying and Ivan was yelling, Lola walked over and stood between them. She turned to Ivan and firmly said his name. He looked at Lola, blinked, and sat down. Lola put him in his place with a single word. I saw this happen a few other times, but for the most part Lola served Ivan unquestioningly, just as Mom wanted her to After the big fight, I mostly avoided going home, and at age 23 I moved to Seattle. When I did visit I saw a change. Mom was still Mom, but not as relentlessly. She got Lola a fine set of dentures and let her have her own bedroom Reagan’s landmark immigration bill of 1986 made millions of illegal immigrants eligible for amnesty. It was a long process, but Lola became a citizen in October 1998 Lola was never happier than when Mom relaxed around her. An afternoon at the coast or just 15 minutes in the kitchen reminiscing about the old days in the province, and Lola would seem to forget years of torment The priest asked Mom whether there was anything she wanted to be forgiven for. She reached over and placed an open hand on Lola’s head. She didn’t say a word Lola was 75 when she came to stay with me We gave Lola a bedroom and license to do whatever she wanted: sleep in, watch soaps, do nothing all day. She could relax—and be free—for the first time in her life She made our beds and did our laundry. She cleaned the house. I found myself saying to her, nicely at first, “Lola, you don’t have to do that.” “Lola, we’ll do it ourselves.” “Lola, that’s the girls’ job.” Okay, she’d say, but keep right on doing it She didn’t know any other way to be. I realized I had to take my own advice and relax. If she wanted to make dinner, let her. Thank her and do the dishes. I had to remind myself constantly: Let her be I knew she’d been sending almost all her money—my wife and I gave her $200 a week—to relatives back home. One afternoon, I found her sitting on the back deck gazing at a snapshot someone had sent of her village Just after her 83rd birthday, I paid her airfare to go home. I’d follow a month later to bring her back to the U.S.—if she wanted to return “Everything was not the same,” she told me as we walked around Mayantoc. The old farms were gone. Her house was gone. Her parents and most of her siblings were gone. Childhood friends, the ones still alive, were like strangers. It was nice to see them, but … everything was not the same. She’d still like to spend her last years here, she said, but she wasn’t ready yet. She was mad at Mom for being so cruel all those years, but she nevertheless missed her there were years when she’d dreamed of being with a man living with Mom’s husbands made her think being alone wasn’t so bad Mom, my four siblings and me, and now my two daughters. The eight of us, she said, made her life worth living",
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        {
            "id": 1491143168,
            "title": "Bondi Massacre was a choice",
            "excerpt": "- Armed attackers targeting Jewish families led to multiple deaths, injuries, and fears for community safety.  \n- Disturbances grew, including firebombings and marches featuring threats, while notable historic Jewish figures highlight a proud tradition of service in Australia.  \n- Such extremism is linked to similar global acts of terror and is not perceived as native to Australia, which has a successful record of integrating diverse communities.  \n- There is concern that further attacks would undermine national pragmatism and cohesion, prompting calls to address and prevent the importation of violent hatreds.  ",
            "link": "https://www.kvetch.au/p/the-bondi-massacre-was-a-choice",
            "created": "2025-12-16T02:42:13.590Z",
            "highlights": "two men, Naveed Akram and his father Sajid Akram, took out guns and began shooting at the Jewish families. At least 15 are dead, and 42 have been hospitalized. On October 9, 2023, New South Wales police asked Jews to leave the Sydney central business district because they couldn’t guarantee their safety. All that was known at the time was that there was a massacre of Jews in Israel. One Sydney imam was “elated” by the massacre. An Australian senator hailed the Palestinian cause. Hundreds of men wound their way to the Opera House to light flares, threaten and chant against the Jews. On October 13, 2023, I wrote about Australian Jewry’s deep history and proud service to the nation. That included, among many other figures, the meticulous and understated Sir John Monash, perhaps the greatest general of World War I, whom King George knighted in France, the first battlefield knighthood in nearly two centuries. I wrote about how my wife asked me if it was safe for our boy to wear a kippah outside. Yes, I said immediately, thinking the question ridiculous. What am I to tell her now? Since then, a Melbourne synagogue and a Sydney Jewish café have been firebombed. Australia expelled the Iranian ambassador after intelligence services linked his country to the attacks. A former New South Wales premier, Sydney’s Lord Mayor, and other politicians marched against Israel beneath a banner showing gun-toting Ayatollah How optimistic should I be now? Such evil is not native to this land. Australia’s first Australian-born governor-general, Sir Isaac Isaacs, was Jewish. We can quibble about historic anti-Semitism in Australia, but nothing like this evil has plagued Australian Jewry before It is the same evil that shot up the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016 and attacked San Bernardino in 2015. That rams cars into a Christmas market in Germany. That massacred a kindergarten in Toulouse. That blew up kids at a music concert in Manchester. Ghouls will blame Israel. Did Sydney’s Jews attack Sydney’s Arabs following the October 7 massacre? Did we prowl their neighborhoods? No. It would be unthinkable. Preposterous. This has nothing to do with Israel, and nothing to do with general intolerance in Australia Australia has been incredibly successful at assimilating large numbers of immigrants. We have one of the world’s largest foreign-born populations To avoid importing ethnic or religious hatreds is not to disparage immigrants or immigration generally. Australians are pragmatic. They expect their government to solve problems, heavy-handed or not would be catastrophic for Australia, and out of keeping with its pragmatism, if these attacks were to become the background noise of everyday life, as they already are in parts of Europe Australia does not want its most iconic symbols—the Opera House and Bondi Beach—to become emblems of hatred and violence If they can’t bomb a plane, they’ll bomb the airport security queue. If they can’t bomb the airport security queue, they can bomb a nightclub. If they can’t bomb a nightclub, they will shoot at families gathering in a park. We cannot fortify our way out of this threat. The solution is not better barricades; it is to prevent the enemies of civilization from entering the gates Australians have a choice to make about what kind of society we want to have, and that starts with determining whether we will permit such evil to come and fester here",
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            "id": 1488140110,
            "title": "A rare win",
            "excerpt": "- Investigative journalism is poorly funded, risky under defamation laws, and deterred by media outlets reliant on advertising.  \n- Governments and corporations grow more secretive, making whistleblowers essential for exposing wrongdoing and failures in state operations.  \n- Journalism depends on rigorous fact-checking, optimism that truth can drive positive action, and a commitment to holding power to account—despite claims of “objectivity” masking inherent biases.  \n- Weak media scrutiny fosters persistent problems in housing, aged care, higher education, and other sectors, and Tasmania’s functional adult literacy rate is only around 50%.  ",
            "link": "https://nickfeik.substack.com/p/a-rare-win?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true",
            "created": "2025-12-14T06:08:26.024Z",
            "highlights": "Investigative journalism is a foolish thing to do these days. Apart from a handful of flagship roles in big legacy media houses, it’s underfunded and unsupported. It’s also time-consuming and fraught with financial peril thanks to our defamation laws An industry reliant on gambling, real estate and retail advertising is not going to dig too deep into those subjects At the same time as the traditional business model behind journalism has been collapsing, governments and corporations have become more adept at hiding their wrongdoings and failures It’s often only when a whistleblower contacts a journalist that we learn just how secretive and media-managed normal operations of the state have become Even issues like Robodebt, which you could classify as a success in terms of effective media scrutiny, took years of dogged reporting by a small handful of committed journalists to gain enough traction to warrant official attention The combination of unambitious governments and systemically weak media is how you end up with seemingly intractable problems like we have in housing, aged care, employment services, scientific research, higher education or the NDIS It’s how you end up with an oligopolistic economy, unrestrained neoliberalism, and sociopathic tech bros running rampant and untaxed through our democracy. Journalism’s objective isn’t to bring change. It’s to observe, record, explain. Having said that, journalism still rests on a fundamental optimism, a belief that facts and truth will eventually be the basis of positive action; if people understand a problem, they will act Cynics, conservatives and executives in the media will often mock “activism” in journalism, arguing that journalists who wish to see particular outcomes from their reporting are forgetting objectivity, and bringing their personal politics and values into reporting. I find this argument specious and vapid. Journalism always rests on testing claims and verifying facts – if it didn’t, it wouldn’t be journalism. Rigour and process, not ideology, are journalism’s engine. Journalists and commentators who tell you they don’t let their culture, background or opinions influence their work – and who remain miraculously immune from their own unconscious biases – are either deluded or genuinely think their views are inherently neutral or impartial. Journalists and commentators whose views cleave closer to power are treated as responsible, objective and normal.\n\nThis is a problem, because actively holding power to account should be at the core of journalism. Did you know that Tasmania has a functional adult literacy rate of 50%?",
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            "title": "Male inadequacy drives infertility",
            "excerpt": "Independent careers are insurance against bad husbands.",
            "link": "https://www.kvetch.au/p/male-inadequacy-drives-infertility",
            "created": "2025-12-13T23:53:27.545Z",
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            "title": "Elgato Game Capture 4K X",
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            "title": "2026 Opening Night: Salman Rushdie — Festival of Dangerous Ideas",
            "excerpt": "12 years on from his last appearance, Salman Rushdie returns to Australia and the Festival of Dangerous Ideas to explore the price of ideas.",
            "link": "https://festivalofdangerousideas.com/salman-rushdie-2026/",
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            "title": "What I wish I had known about Germany earlier",
            "excerpt": "- Blind obedience to rules without moral judgment hinders genuine societal evolution and can foster corruption.  \n- Bureaucracy justifies power through collective consent, silences dissent, and turns earnest debate into petty disputes.  \n- Media that avoids conflict becomes complicit with authority, while cultural self-congratulation eclipses sincere art and dialogue.  \n- In a society that shuns honest confrontation, art loses its substance, and people embrace tyranny to escape the burden of self-awareness.  ",
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                        "text": "How optimistic should I be now?",
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                        "text": "Such evil is not native to this land. Australia’s first Australian-born governor-general, Sir Isaac Isaacs, was Jewish.",
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                        "text": "We can quibble about historic anti-Semitism in Australia, but nothing like this evil has plagued Australian Jewry before",
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                        "text": "It is the same evil that shot up the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016 and attacked San Bernardino in 2015. That rams cars into a Christmas market in Germany. That massacred a kindergarten in Toulouse. That blew up kids at a music concert in Manchester.",
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                        "text": "Ghouls will blame Israel. Did Sydney’s Jews attack Sydney’s Arabs following the October 7 massacre? Did we prowl their neighborhoods? No. It would be unthinkable. Preposterous. This has nothing to do with Israel, and nothing to do with general intolerance in Australia",
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                        "text": "Australia has been incredibly successful at assimilating large numbers of immigrants. We have one of the world’s largest foreign-born populations",
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            "highlights": "I put it in a canvas tote bag and packed it in my suitcase this past July for the transpacific flight to Manila. From there I would travel by car to a rural village. When I arrived, I would hand over all that was left of the woman who had spent 56 years as a slave in my family’s household We called her Lola She was 18 years old when my grandfather gave her to my mother as a gift, and when my family moved to the United States, we brought her with us. No other word but slave encompassed the life she lived. Her days began before everyone else woke and ended after we went to bed. She prepared three meals a day, cleaned the house, waited on my parents, and took care of my four siblings and me. My parents never paid her, and they scolded her constantly My father had a law degree, my mother was on her way to becoming a doctor, and my siblings and I got good grades and always said “please” and “thank you.” We never talked about Lola. After my mother died of leukemia, in 1999, Lola came to live with me in a small town north of Seattle. I had a family, a career, a house in the suburbs—the American dream. And then I had a slave. When the Spanish arrived, in the 1500s, they enslaved islanders and later brought African and Indian slaves. The Spanish Crown eventually began phasing out slavery at home and in its colonies, but parts of the Philippines were so far-flung that authorities couldn’t keep a close eye. Tarlac province. Rice country. The home of a cigar-chomping army lieutenant named Tomas Asuncion, my grandfather Lieutenant Tom had as many as three families of utusans living on his property with the islands under Japanese occupation, he brought home a girl from a village down the road Tom approached her with an offer: She could have food and shelter if she would commit to taking care of his daughter, who had just turned 12. Lieutenant Tom went off to fight the Japanese, leaving Mom behind with Lola in his creaky house in the provinces. Lola fed, groomed, and dressed my mother in 1950, Mom married my father and moved to Manila, bringing Lola along. Lieutenant Tom had long been haunted by demons, and in 1951 he silenced them with a .32‑caliber slug to his temple My brother Arthur was born in 1951. I came next My parents expected Lola to be as devoted to us kids as she was to them. While she looked after us, my parents went to school and earned advanced degrees, joining the ranks of so many others with fancy diplomas but no jobs. Then the big break: Dad was offered a job in Foreign Affairs as a commercial analyst. The salary would be meager, but the position was in America Lola didn’t immediately acquiesce. Years later Lola told me she was terrified. “It was too far,” she said. “Maybe your Mom and Dad won’t let me go home.” what convinced Lola was my father’s promise that things would be different in America. He told her that as soon as he and Mom got on their feet, they’d give her an “allowance.” Lola could send money to her parents, to all her relations in the village In many ways she was more of a parent to me than either my mother or my father. Hers was the first face I saw in the morning and the last one I saw at night. As a baby, I uttered Lola’s name as my siblings and I grew up on this other shore, we came to see the world differently. The leap across the ocean brought about a leap in consciousness that Mom and Dad couldn’t, or wouldn’t, make Lola never got that allowance. She asked my parents about it in a roundabout way a couple of years into our life in America “How could you even ask?,” Dad responded in Tagalog. “You see how hard up we are. Don’t you have any shame?” My parents were good to my siblings and me, and we loved them they’d be affectionate to us kids one moment and vile to Lola the next I was 11 or 12 when I began to see Lola’s situation clearly. By then Arthur, eight years my senior, had been seething for a long time. He was the one who introduced the word slave into my understanding of what Lola was Having a slave gave me grave doubts about what kind of people we were, what kind of place we came from. In the old country, my parents felt no need to hide their treatment of Lola. In America, they treated her worse but took pains to conceal it “Who’s that little lady you keep in the kitchen?,” Big Jim, the Missler patriarch, once asked. A relative from back home, Dad said. Very shy. Billy Missler, my best friend, didn’t buy it. He spent enough time at our house, whole weekends sometimes, to catch glimpses of my family’s secret. He once overheard my mother yelling in the kitchen, and when he barged in to investigate found Mom red-faced and glaring at Lola, who was quaking in a corner. I came in a few seconds later. The look on Billy’s face was a mix of embarrassment and perplexity. What was that? I waved it off and told him to forget it. He’d rave about her cooking, and make her laugh like I’d never seen Lola’s travel papers had expired in 1969, five years after we arrived in the U.S. She’d come on a special passport linked to my father’s job. After a series of fallings-out with his superiors, Dad quit the consulate and declared his intent to stay in the United States. He arranged for permanent-resident status for his family, but Lola wasn’t eligible. He was supposed to send her back If the authorities had found out about Lola, as they surely would have if she’d tried to leave, my parents could have gotten into trouble, possibly even been deported. When I was 15, Dad left the family for good he deserted us kids and abandoned Mom after 25 years of marriage My mom kept herself together enough to go to work, but at night she’d crumble in self-pity and despair. Her main source of comfort during this time: Lola my mother remarried and demanded Lola’s fealty to her new husband, a Croatian immigrant named Ivan, whom she had met through a friend. Ivan had never finished high school. He’d been married four times and was an inveterate gambler who enjoyed being supported by my mother and attended to by Lola. Once, during an argument in which Mom was crying and Ivan was yelling, Lola walked over and stood between them. She turned to Ivan and firmly said his name. He looked at Lola, blinked, and sat down. Lola put him in his place with a single word. I saw this happen a few other times, but for the most part Lola served Ivan unquestioningly, just as Mom wanted her to After the big fight, I mostly avoided going home, and at age 23 I moved to Seattle. When I did visit I saw a change. Mom was still Mom, but not as relentlessly. She got Lola a fine set of dentures and let her have her own bedroom Reagan’s landmark immigration bill of 1986 made millions of illegal immigrants eligible for amnesty. It was a long process, but Lola became a citizen in October 1998 Lola was never happier than when Mom relaxed around her. An afternoon at the coast or just 15 minutes in the kitchen reminiscing about the old days in the province, and Lola would seem to forget years of torment The priest asked Mom whether there was anything she wanted to be forgiven for. She reached over and placed an open hand on Lola’s head. She didn’t say a word Lola was 75 when she came to stay with me We gave Lola a bedroom and license to do whatever she wanted: sleep in, watch soaps, do nothing all day. She could relax—and be free—for the first time in her life She made our beds and did our laundry. She cleaned the house. I found myself saying to her, nicely at first, “Lola, you don’t have to do that.” “Lola, we’ll do it ourselves.” “Lola, that’s the girls’ job.” Okay, she’d say, but keep right on doing it She didn’t know any other way to be. I realized I had to take my own advice and relax. If she wanted to make dinner, let her. Thank her and do the dishes. I had to remind myself constantly: Let her be I knew she’d been sending almost all her money—my wife and I gave her $200 a week—to relatives back home. One afternoon, I found her sitting on the back deck gazing at a snapshot someone had sent of her village Just after her 83rd birthday, I paid her airfare to go home. I’d follow a month later to bring her back to the U.S.—if she wanted to return “Everything was not the same,” she told me as we walked around Mayantoc. The old farms were gone. Her house was gone. Her parents and most of her siblings were gone. Childhood friends, the ones still alive, were like strangers. It was nice to see them, but … everything was not the same. She’d still like to spend her last years here, she said, but she wasn’t ready yet. She was mad at Mom for being so cruel all those years, but she nevertheless missed her there were years when she’d dreamed of being with a man living with Mom’s husbands made her think being alone wasn’t so bad Mom, my four siblings and me, and now my two daughters. The eight of us, she said, made her life worth living",
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