Her family
originally came from Nicaragua. She told a heartbreaking story about
what happened 10 years ago. She was in high school. She was taking a
shower in the morning before she was to go to school. There was a knock
on the bathroom door. Her mother was crying and screaming: ``Come out. Come out.'' Katherine came out to see her father being handcuffed. They
were deporting him to Nicaragua. He was gone. That was the last time he
saw her and she saw him--10 years ago. As she told the story, she said
that her mother tried to make it as a single mom with her kids here in
the United States and finally gave up and went back to Nicaragua,
leaving Katherine to raise herself, to pay her own way through college,
to get a teaching certificate and teach special-ed in the city of
Chicago.
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