Businessman Y

Y visited me from Charlottesville. It’s been 15 years since I saw him last time. My family moved to Germany and He came to USA.
I think his parents were pursuing the “American Dream”. His father quit job, sold the house and sent all the money to his uncle who came to USA earlier. His uncle promised his family that he was going to set up everything for them; finding a new house, a job, school.

But when they landed in Chicago, noone was there. His uncle ran away with the money.
“We used to live in house in a bad neighborhood” he said, “after a while we weren’t even surprised to see rats strolling in the living room”

He and his mom worked 15 hours a day, cleaning big stores like Bestbuy or Target, stacking boxes.


Y became a very successful business man now.