I LOVE this woman!!! Meet my mama, Mary Ann Fried (maiden name Apohen). Born in the Philippines and came to this country on a boat when she was only 3. Her journey took 30days, most of which she spent sea sick but remembers loving the french vanilla ice cream. Her father had traveled to America 11 years prior, searching for a better life for he, my grandmother and my uncle, but because of World War II, wasn't able to return to the Philippines for 9 years. Can you imagine being separated from your family for 9 years at a time when writing letters was your only real means of communication? Once they were reunited, my mother was born, and the whole...
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