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I was born in Australia to immigrant parents. My mother is from a small farming town in Southern Italy. My father is from Los Angeles and migrated to Australia at 30 years old for a 2-year high-school teaching job, then decided to stay after it was over. My Italian grandparents never learned to speak English...

I came across this a few years ago and it moved me deeply. For me, it signifies the struggle to ‘the top’ but raises so many more issues and ideas… … The top of what? … Sometimes it’s so hard to move just one step only just to fall back again … We struggle so...