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Sophie Emilie, performing at WoWPS 2020 in Dallas, TX.
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i’m writing a story
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a romantic comedy about a woman who’s
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seconds away from getting deported
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proposes to her employee and forces him
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to marry her
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but in true hollywood fashion the two
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inadvertently fall in love so
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all’s well that ends well or a man
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who mistakenly gets deported to mexico
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but is rescued by the love of his life
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and it’s not long before the entire
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experience is just another memory to
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look back at and laugh at so all’s well
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that ends well
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or my cousin offers his best friend a
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sports car
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as payment for marrying me tells him she
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will live in nashville with you and you
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can do whatever you want with the car
0:42
just make sure she
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gets her green card yes i’m the one
0:46
proposing
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no it isn’t rom-com quirky down on one
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knee it’s sitting in my friend’s car at
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half past midnight
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telling him rather you than a stranger
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800 miles away
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asking myself how 18 years of
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assimilation has earned me nothing more
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than the right to go back home anyway
1:01
back to a home i barely even remember
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because the only home i’ve ever really
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known never wanted me in the first place
1:08
and i tell my mother that worst case
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scenario my sister and i are all grown
1:12
up now so we’ll be all right by
1:13
ourselves here but you
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and dad will need each other should
1:16
either of you ever get sent back home
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we are the plot twist that everyone’s
1:20
been waiting for but there’s no laughter
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anymore
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there’s no room for romance or comedy
1:26
but it is your family that faces
1:27
deportation
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when it is your mother and father that
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have to choose between their daughters
1:32
and each other when it is you that is
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left wondering if this
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body intact is worth a fractured family
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if the loneliness is really worth your
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pride and if your pride is worth
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forsaking your mother sacrifices
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if it means you get to hold on to your
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dignity just a little
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while longer if it means for once you
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get to choose how this story
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goes
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[Applause]
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