This document is the author's visual narrative essay about moving from England to America as a child. It describes her imagination about a new life in America, but also what she didn't account for leaving behind, like her grandparents who gave her gifts. The author details some of the difficulties of adjusting to American culture as an immigrant child, like finding foods like Dr Pepper too spicy. Though it was hard to let go of England, over time she came to feel like America is where she belongs through experiences like becoming a citizen, getting married, having a daughter, and buying a home in the same neighborhood she originally moved to.
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My father was always delphic about his politics. He had a touching faith in the position of the Times, regardless of its editorial regime. My mother accused him of voting Tory, but he would never let on. Sittingbourne voted Leave and, if I had to bet, I’d probably put my money on him having done so too, though he might well have regretted it. As to my mother, whatever her insularity, I think Boris and Jacob would have inoculated her against the Leave cause. She would have loathed Rees-Mogg. I loathe him too and I recognise the violence of my feelings about him as cognate with how I imagine my mother’s. If there are many others like us, then the perpetrators of Brexit have underestimated the forces they are at risk of unleashing.
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2. Like most British kids,
my only knowledge of
America was drawn
from movies and
television programs.
We had three channels
to choose from: BBC1,
BBC2 and ITV.
3.
4. Rainy Sundays often
found us watching dusty
old Westerns. Seeing
all of that sand, the
canyons and earth tones
made my tongue dry up
like clay.
5.
6. My imagination went
wild at the prospect of
a new life in America.
What I didn’t take into
account was all that
we would leave behind.
8. My paternal
grandparents didn’t
take the news well. I
was particularly sad to
leave them because they
lavished gifts on us, like
this fan and castanets
from one of their trips
to Spain.
10. My father insisted that we
not smile in our passport
pictures. I couldn’t help it! He
had to keep feeding more and
more money into the coin
slot. He was not pleased.
I was primed for a perfectly
despondent shot.
11.
12. When I said goodbye to my
hamster Christmas, she bit my
fingertip. I couldn’t believe my
own hamster had rejected me.
I left my toy dog Cokey in our
old house for the new people
and immediately regretted it.
The day was off to a bad start.
14. My brother and I were
invited up into the cockpit
and given honorary
British Airways Junior Jet
Club passbooks to enter
our future British
Airways trips. Of which
there would be none.
15.
16. On the drive from
the airport, I
continued to retch
while taking in the
sights of Route One
out the side
window. Past the
Hilltop with its
plastic cows grazing
the side of the
highway . . .
17. Within mere hours of
arrival, I realized we could
very well starve to death.
We were offered Dr. Pepper
or Ginger Ale to drink but
they were “too spicy” for
our bland palates.
19. Letting go was hard and I
missed England for a
long time. I felt like I
was always drawing
comparisons between
English and American
culture and choosing
sides.
20.
21. On September 23, 1994 in
Concord, NH I was sworn in
as an American citizen, when
in actuality, becoming an
American has been a gradual
process occuring over the
course of my life here.
22.
23. My husband and I were
married in the Rose Garden
at Lynch Park in Beverly on a
beautiful June day in 1999.
We’ve been to England
together. Twice.
We’ve also been to Disney
World. Four times.
24.
25. We bought our home in the
same neighborhood my
family moved to back in
1978.