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“My name is Dawt Si. I grew up in Burma and moved to the United States in 2009 when I was 18 years old. Burma is a very poor country and I could not afford to go to school there. My mother is a teacher and she always encouraged me to learn, but I never learned English. I moved to Denver and lived with family there for two years without knowing any English at all. When people said “hello” to me, I thought that they were calling me by the name “Hello.”
Some refugees living in Jacksonville were once Lost Boys. That was what aid workers called more than 20,000 boys of minority ethnic groups who fled Sudan during a civil war in the early 80s.
