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At the bank, my daughter pushed the pen toward me: “Just sign, Mom.” Her husband placed his hand on my shoulder, gentle but enough to make me feel cornered. But the bank manager had already read the note I secretly passed, and in that moment, in a quiet branch in Portland, Oregon, my whole life in the United States tilted on its axis. To anyone walking past the glass office, we probably looked like a normal American family taking care of some paperwork. My daughter in her neat cardigan, her husb