Lots of immigrants open restaurants in Canada, and for annhui, they were a gateway into her family's past
I met Stacey in a crowded Starbucks in the underground mall beneath Toronto’s Financial District. She had been living in Toronto for the past two years, working on the thirtieth floor of the gleaming office tower above us. She was a physiotherapist, treating executives and athletes at an elite private clinic.
I told her about my parents and how they refused to throw out dish cloths. And about how, even a decade after I’d moved out, I’d still find my mom wearing hand-me-downs—not from other relatives or friends, but from us. The clothes they had bought us as teenagers—studded t-shirts and brightly coloured Gap parkas we’d long since discarded—my mom was now wearing as her own.
“My dad’s sick,” I said finally. I told her how he’d been slowing down. How he’d been skipping more of his Saturday hikes. How sometimes, when he answered the phone, he seemed to barely have enough energy to answer my questions.I knew I was being unclear. So I continued. “These days,” she said, “it’s about making sure my parents are comfortable.” She offered to help put her brother through grad school, if he needs it, and if it will help her parents to retire sooner. She’s offered to help them financially, too.I asked her what that meant—what she or her siblings could have done to disappoint them—but she shook her head.
I thought back to all the conversations I’d had even over the past few months with my dad. All of the weekly phone calls with the both of them from Toronto.
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