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They left their lovely home to fulfill a promise that was not found, one big happy family board up their house pack their luggage in the back of a truck and went in search of a new place that they could call home. It was millions of miles away from their community but they were destined to fulfill that journey, they went cross country in the early morning and end up in another city at midnight after driving for ten hours to fulfill that painful sacrifice. They bought some snacks and spend the rest of the night in their truck anticipating the daylight. The hooting and tooting of the horns and the drunken men chatters keeps their mind afloat while destiny speed on the ocean surface in a motor boat, the kind that you don’t see in the city and one that is absent in the country but if you think about it long enough it can make you really feel unhappy. They didn’t have a clear destination but they decided to drive to the border and cross over into America. They did not have a lot of money but what they had in cash and on the bank card plus the expected sales of the car was enough to keep a family of five alive for more than a year. They took a stroll in the city, freshen up, had some butter cups and hit the road again, miles and miles of roads stood before them with cane filed on either side and hundreds if cows grazing above the hills. They took the local road, and cut out the high way to avoid the busy traffic at nights .They took turns driving while the children slept soundly in the back of the truck. They drove through the burning heat and as they approach the intersection they met the flashing lights in front of them, the police, the ambulance and first responder was on the ground wrapping up dead bodies and piling them in the a truck. A bus overturned with fifty two passengers and half of the crew did not make it through. They were force to go back on the highway in a bumper to bumper traffic. They drove for twelve hours feeding on donuts and bottle water and by six o’clock they were at the border; luck was on their side a miracle came just in time, they got the sales and the right price for their car. The title, insurance and everything was transferred in a Jiffy, and it made the entire family happy. They had no trouble when they reached the border all their documents were in order, they had a six months visa stamp in their passport and they knew what their plan was all about. For the first time they saw reality in full colors, immigrants lie on the street and foaming in gutter, lines and lines of them lean on the border fence trying to cross over. And so the family board a bus to the city and left the people grieving by the way side.
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