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I imagine my mom, or my Auntie Hui-chin, selecting what to bring with them on a trip halfway across the world. Clothes for all kinds of weather; a few family photographs; a ring or a necklace given to them by their mothers; two or three books; their best shoes; an address book with contact information for all their relatives in Taiwan, plus a few friends-of-friends to look up in the Tri-State area; a handheld mirror; a purse. There wasn’t room for anything frivolous.

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“What, if anything, would make it into my suitcase, a piece of Taiwan and my parents that I could bring home with me?”

A new essay by Grace Prasad on leaving home, what we take with us, and leave behind.

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