The diasporic condition is to be of a place you did not choose to leave and in a place that does not fully claim you — to live in a permanent hyphen, between the homeland and the country of settlement, between the generation that remembers and the generation that cannot. It is a loss that is also, sometimes, a widening: the person who belongs fully to two worlds belongs more fully to the human one. The grief and the gift are inseparable.
Juana