Armir Harris is on a bus. He's 9 years old, traveling with his mother and 12-year-old sister from the south Texas border to Boston. The trip, he's been told, will take nearly three days-but his motion sickness makes him miserable, so he tries to sleep as much as possible, clutching the three action figures he's been carrying with him for the past two years, through four countries. He tries not to worry that his mother has less than $3,000 to last them for ... how long? Long enough for him to learn English? Long enough for them to find a home? Long enough for her to find a job? He tries to shove the questions down, deep enough that he can sleep.
When he thinks back to the home his family fled in Vlorë, Albania, where the foothills of the Ceraunian Mountains meet the Adriatic Sea, Armir Harris doesn't seem particularly wistful. Yes, it was beautiful. Yes, there were beaches. Yes, they went every weekend. But when he was 7, a brutal civil war broke out. Gunshots outside of his window meant his mother kept his sister and him inside-all day, all night-for months. Then, one night, at 3 a.m., his mother hailed a cab to the airport, and they left, with what they could carry. He tells the story quickly. He's eager to move on.
The fact is, fleeing the violence began a nearly four-year stretch of Harris's life without formal education. A stretch that, at times, meant his only bed was a makeshift one, outdoors, or in an Amtrak station. Or on a bus. Twenty years later, he doesn't love to talk about it. Friends can know him for years without his telling them he's a refugee, or that much of his childhood was spent homeless, or helping his mom at any job she could get-including cleaning a restaurant at 2 a.m.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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