These mothers face a double bind. They hope to raise children unburdened by the past, comfortable in their new homeland, enjoying opportunities they never had themselves. If they succeed – as with many immigrant parents around the world – their prize is a child who is unintelligible to them.
What the ark builders have in common — the ice corers and the seed vaulters, the writers and the biologists and the nuclear engineers — is that they have each made an investment in the present in exchange for a benefit they personally will never collect.
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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
