Word: sonly
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...smiled and gestured to tables where other members sat, clapping and swaying back and forth. Henderson stood at the edge of the group singing with his young son in his arms...
...family is delighted that No. 2 Son made it safely to the U.S. When TIME shows his parents pictures of Canting standing outside his restaurant and sitting in a car, the mother rushes off to show all her neighbors, as proud as American parents displaying college graduation photos of their children. Like the knight who slayed the dragon, Chen Canting overcame the dangers challenging him, risking death on the high seas, imprisonment in four countries and abandonment in a nation where he knew nothing of the language or the culture. He broke the law and remains an illegal immigrant, which...
...going except his father. The 50-year-old farmer from Meiyou village was not really surprised. Canting, the second oldest of his five children, was the most ambitious. Slightly built but with a surprisingly deep voice and an earnest air of self-assurance, No. 2 Son always wanted more than the village offered. Instead of carousing in the karaoke bars, he tried to set up his own business. He went south to Xiamen to trade seafood, but ended up losing money in the fickle, seasonal business. Undaunted, he was now attempting something far more audacious. He would entrust his fate...
Canting's father could give his departing son nothing but a few warnings: be careful; stay out of fights; remember, plenty of people die on the ships or are caught at the other end and sent back. Father and son agreed not to tell the young man's mother. She would try to stop him. The night before he left, Chen took over from her as usual at the noodle stall he helped her run. After she went home, he quickly closed up the stall and made his way into Fuzhou, 15 miles away. At the main railroad station...
Despite these good intentions, one might argue that Cuban-Americans wish to deny the reunification of father and son for solely political reasons. But let us be perfectly clear: Our contention is not to keep Elian from his father. We believe Juan Miguel Gonzalez is a good man and we do not doubt his love for Elian. But perhaps, in this case, the father may not be fit to decide the best interests of his son: Juan Miguel is the product of a communist regime. Who knows what kind of strongholds Castro may have over the father--what relatives...