On a day like today twenty-one years ago I arrived to the United States with my family. I wrote the essay below in 2001 for a creative writing class in college where I describe my experience returning to my house in Peru in 2000 after my father had repurchased it. Built in 1970 when my parents married, my parents sold the house in 1993 and bought it back in 2000. From 2000 to 2010 we owned the house once again... Read more