The first thought I had after my best friend broke up with me was, "Don't you want to grow old with the person who taught you to put in a tampon?" We had met when we were 10, became best friends when we were 16. We went from being the daughters of immigrant移民的 mothers who knew that nothing goes in that hole until there's a wedding ring on your finger. To becoming people who chose professions and paths outside our parents' expectations期待.
And in the immigrant移民的 household I was raised in, I had learned that friendship is a lifelong终身的 expectation期待 because friendship is synonymous同义的 with liberation解放. The fabric织品 of my family was fractured by genocide种族灭绝 three days after I was born and our people scattered across the globe. As the years passed, I watched my parents reunite and melt（使）融化 into the embrace拥抱 of friends they had not seen in 10, 15, sometimes 30 years.
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