Jhumpa Lahiri - I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable a...

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I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Ich habe ein Gefühl für diesen Verlust von meinen Eltern geerbt, weil er die ganze Zeit während meines Erwachsenwerdens so spürbar war, das Gefühl, was meine Eltern geopfert hatten, als sie in die Vereinigten Staaten gezogen waren, und gleichzeitig einen das Leben hier und alles, was dazu gehörte.

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