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but it is too expensive. Maybe one
day I can buy it for you.’ She said,
‘Just write a check.” I said, ‘No, I
don’t have any money.’”
Shawn recalls the days when they
had to walk everywhere.
“I remember going to IGA for
groceries,” Shawn says. “I remember
putting groceries in a wheelbarrow
and following my mom because we
had no car.”
They were threatened with depor-tation.
And Pat didn’t know if her
husband was alive.
“The uncertainty in life is the
worst thing,” she says. “Because you
don’t know what is happening tomor-row.
You have to go step by step. My
responsibility was very deep now. I
had to be a father, and I had to be a
mother. This was the life. It was not
easy.”
She tried to remain positive, to
show the children everything would
be okay. She didn’t always succeed.
“The children, I didn’t let them be
upset,” she says. “I cried in the shower
because I didn’t want them to see me.
When I came from the shower and
my eyes were red, Shahrzad would
say, ‘Mom, you are crying?’ And I
would say, ‘No, why would I cry?
Everything is so good. Everything is
okay.’”
The children who had lost so many
material things soon came to realize
they had something very special in
their mother.
“She is like a mountain,” Shahrzad
says. “You cannot move her. She is
very strong. She is emotionally very
strong. She tried to make a life for
us, to make us think everything was
going to be okay. She was very, very
supportive. I don’t know anyone that’s
got a bigger heart than her.”
Shawn, who grew up to found and
later sell a lucrative software company,
also appreciated the way she held the
family together.
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