HeyJaredThe Journey of an Immigrant's Dream
A lifelong negotiation between assimilation and heritage, and a reckoning between following a script and finding my true self.
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What I Would Like To Tell My Younger Self (opens the original)
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Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Variation 18. Daniil Trifonov with the Philadelphia OrchestraFull moon on July 28th, 2026. Time-lapse video taken on my phone, edited with CapCut.<img alt="" class="sizing
The Dream House on a Slope (opens the original)
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A departure from my usual first-person memoir essays, this piece is narrated from a different distance and angle, in a fictionalized form.Content note: This essay touches upon suicide and mental health.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal
Holding Hands (opens the original)
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This essay was originally edited and published by in her on May 12th. This is a revision of that essay with a video added at the end— a compilation of both of our playing of Chopin’s Impromptu No. 3, Op. 51.This weekend, we remember Mom on the second anniversary of her passing.Mom, I miss you! <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/
The Garden House (opens the original)
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This is part four, the final installment of a multi-part essay, about the life stories of my grandparents, A Gong 阿公 and A Puo 阿婆.To read previous parts: Under The Fair Moon here, Shanghai, Where Everything Happened here, and The Wear of Days, The Crush of Turmoil <a href="https://immigrantsjourney.substack.com/p/the
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