Vignette: Cabdriver (Eritrea)

In 2002, on my way to Chicago O'Hare Airport, I met a cabdriver from Eritrea, who had been in the US since 1977. He had become a citizen in 1991.

When I asked him whether he ever went back to Eritrea, he told me that he hadn't been back in all those years, but he did think he wanted to go home when he retired. That's the word he used, "home."

His children are Americans, though. They definitely wouldn't come along.

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