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"content": "\u003cp>For our series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,\" we’re asking Californians from all walks of life \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream? What happened to it? Is that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a letter from Terry Curtis to his grandfather, Henry Christian Curtis:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear Grandpa Henry,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I loved the stories you told me about your father, Jurgen. In 1904, he sailed from Bogø, Denmark to California as captain of a sailing ship, then decided to stay. In 1906, you and the rest of the family followed in groups; by steamer to Ellis Island, then by train to a Danish ghetto in the San Antonio neighborhood in Oakland, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11707601 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34011_grandparents_san_antonio_1915-qut-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34011_grandparents_san_antonio_1915-qut-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34011_grandparents_san_antonio_1915-qut-160x207.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34011_grandparents_san_antonio_1915-qut-1020x1320.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34011_grandparents_san_antonio_1915-qut-927x1200.jpg 927w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34011_grandparents_san_antonio_1915-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Christian Curtis and his wife in their Oakland home in the then-Danish enclave of the San Antonio district, 1915. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Terry Curtis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">When you were eligible for citizenship, you worked in a machine shop. Most of the employees were Danes named Petersen and, like you, many had the name Christian. Your given name was Christian Henry Axel Petersen. This meant paydays were a challenge since there were many checks for \"Christian Petersen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You wanted to be an American, and a Californian, not an emigrant. So, you worked at losing your accent. At naturalization you changed your name to Henry Christian Curtis, after the character Henry Curtis in “King Solomon’s Mines” — the very novel you taught yourself English with by reading and reciting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11707604 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34010_Oakland-mill-qut-800x744.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34010_Oakland-mill-qut-800x744.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34010_Oakland-mill-qut-160x149.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34010_Oakland-mill-qut-1020x948.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34010_Oakland-mill-qut-1200x1116.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34010_Oakland-mill-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Christian Curtis (far right) worked as an apprentice machinist at the California Cotton Mills in 1912. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Terry Curtis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Then the Great Depression hit hard. You and Grandma lost your home in Oakland. So every summer you sailed to Alaska to work a fish cannery while Grandma and your kids lived with her sister in Sebastopol. The California dream seemed lost. But World War II brought work. You built submarines at Mare Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Growing up in Santa Rosa in the ‘50s, I spent summers with you. You taught me to work. You wanted me to study and become middle class. Part of your California dream was that your grandchildren would have a better life. So, I attended UC Santa Barbara and law school at the University of Chicago. I was there during the demonstrations of 1968. You couldn’t understand my life then – but you let me know that you loved me, long hair, beard, crazy friends and all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11707610 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34014_UCSB_1966-qut-800x1130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1130\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34014_UCSB_1966-qut-800x1130.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34014_UCSB_1966-qut-160x226.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34014_UCSB_1966-qut-1020x1441.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34014_UCSB_1966-qut-849x1200.jpg 849w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34014_UCSB_1966-qut.jpg 1056w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry Curtis's graduation portrait from UC Santa Barbara, 1966.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11707611 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34015_University-of-Chicago_1969-qut-800x1124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1124\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34015_University-of-Chicago_1969-qut-800x1124.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34015_University-of-Chicago_1969-qut-160x225.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34015_University-of-Chicago_1969-qut-1020x1433.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34015_University-of-Chicago_1969-qut-854x1200.jpg 854w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34015_University-of-Chicago_1969-qut.jpg 1037w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry Curtis graduated from University of Chicago Law School in 1969.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">By the standards of your family on the island of Bogø, I have prospered. I became an attorney and a university professor. In a way, I fulfilled your dream. But I cannot help but worry about my grandchildren’s lives in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">My children will not likely earn what I have. They struggle to afford housing and send their children to college. Like you, I dream of a good life for my grandchildren. You and I lived the California dream. Now, I wonder what their lives will be like if they stay here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11707614\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34016_Terry-Curtis-and-family_1975_Santa-Rosa-qut-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34016_Terry-Curtis-and-family_1975_Santa-Rosa-qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34016_Terry-Curtis-and-family_1975_Santa-Rosa-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34016_Terry-Curtis-and-family_1975_Santa-Rosa-qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34016_Terry-Curtis-and-family_1975_Santa-Rosa-qut-1200x856.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34016_Terry-Curtis-and-family_1975_Santa-Rosa-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry Curtis and his former wife with their oldest son in Santa Rosa, 1975. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Terry Curtis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Love,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Terry\u003c/p>\n\n",
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At naturalization you changed your name to Henry Christian Curtis, after the character Henry Curtis in “King Solomon’s Mines” — the very novel you taught yourself English with by reading and reciting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11707604 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34010_Oakland-mill-qut-800x744.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34010_Oakland-mill-qut-800x744.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34010_Oakland-mill-qut-160x149.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34010_Oakland-mill-qut-1020x948.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34010_Oakland-mill-qut-1200x1116.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34010_Oakland-mill-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Christian Curtis (far right) worked as an apprentice machinist at the California Cotton Mills in 1912. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Terry Curtis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Then the Great Depression hit hard. You and Grandma lost your home in Oakland. So every summer you sailed to Alaska to work a fish cannery while Grandma and your kids lived with her sister in Sebastopol. The California dream seemed lost. But World War II brought work. You built submarines at Mare Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Growing up in Santa Rosa in the ‘50s, I spent summers with you. You taught me to work. You wanted me to study and become middle class. Part of your California dream was that your grandchildren would have a better life. So, I attended UC Santa Barbara and law school at the University of Chicago. I was there during the demonstrations of 1968. You couldn’t understand my life then – but you let me know that you loved me, long hair, beard, crazy friends and all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11707610 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34014_UCSB_1966-qut-800x1130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1130\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34014_UCSB_1966-qut-800x1130.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34014_UCSB_1966-qut-160x226.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34014_UCSB_1966-qut-1020x1441.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34014_UCSB_1966-qut-849x1200.jpg 849w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34014_UCSB_1966-qut.jpg 1056w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry Curtis's graduation portrait from UC Santa Barbara, 1966.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11707611 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34015_University-of-Chicago_1969-qut-800x1124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1124\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34015_University-of-Chicago_1969-qut-800x1124.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34015_University-of-Chicago_1969-qut-160x225.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34015_University-of-Chicago_1969-qut-1020x1433.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34015_University-of-Chicago_1969-qut-854x1200.jpg 854w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34015_University-of-Chicago_1969-qut.jpg 1037w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry Curtis graduated from University of Chicago Law School in 1969.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">By the standards of your family on the island of Bogø, I have prospered. I became an attorney and a university professor. In a way, I fulfilled your dream. But I cannot help but worry about my grandchildren’s lives in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">My children will not likely earn what I have. They struggle to afford housing and send their children to college. Like you, I dream of a good life for my grandchildren. You and I lived the California dream. Now, I wonder what their lives will be like if they stay here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11707614\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34016_Terry-Curtis-and-family_1975_Santa-Rosa-qut-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34016_Terry-Curtis-and-family_1975_Santa-Rosa-qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34016_Terry-Curtis-and-family_1975_Santa-Rosa-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34016_Terry-Curtis-and-family_1975_Santa-Rosa-qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34016_Terry-Curtis-and-family_1975_Santa-Rosa-qut-1200x856.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34016_Terry-Curtis-and-family_1975_Santa-Rosa-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry Curtis and his former wife with their oldest son in Santa Rosa, 1975. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Terry Curtis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Love,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Terry\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For a series we’re calling “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter to My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to write a short letter to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003cbr>\nWhat happened to it?\u003cbr>\nIs that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a letter from Sarah Monroy to her father, Enrique Monroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear Papá,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You landed in California in 1967, during the month of July. Mendocino was your first home here, unlike any town you had known in Guatemala. Just two years later, also in July, Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. It felt like a momentous echo of your own journey to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">One small step for a Guatemalan boy, one giant leap for human survival. But Neil Armstrong had a home that he went back to, whereas for you, orphaned as a child, there was no home or family waiting for you in Escuintla, Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You clipped the front page of the Time magazine cover with Neil standing next to the words “Man on the Moon.” It stayed pinned on the wall by your desk in our home in Imperial Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11701106\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-800x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-800x575.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-1020x733.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-960x690.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-375x269.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-520x374.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut.jpg 1087w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Monroy in the redwood forest, Avenue of the Giants, circa 1970. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sarah Monroy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Your desert dreams swelled, even in drought years. They overflowed with a hope for cultural survival and language acquisition because, like Neil Armstrong, you had to survive on a foreign moon that neither saw you nor understood your accent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You died when I was very young, but I still hear your American dream in the lingering bellow of the foghorn when I stand beneath the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">The first time I heard that foghorn was on one of our road trips. You pulled over at the last exit for the bridge, our old gray van blending into a mist so thick we could barely see a few yards ahead. I couldn’t believe there was a city this cold in summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11701100\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-800x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-800x576.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-960x691.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-240x173.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-375x270.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-520x374.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut.jpg 963w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Monroy’s older siblings and parents at the Redwood Chandelier Tree, circa 1970. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sarah Monroy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">We’d driven 500 miles and left the desert of Imperial Valley for a short vacation to escape the 120-degree heat. We crossed miles of desert, through layers of marine smells at the Salton Sea. We joined the long trails of cars filling the L.A. freeways like ants pouring into an anthill, until finally we reached the cliff sides of Northern California. Their wind-carved cypresses and old redwood trees made me think of fairy-tale forests and dragons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Only now that I’m a mother do I see how these road trips were not just family vacations to you. They were expressions of hunger to find your American dream. Your dream was taller than the redwoods, and not sated by simply having a family, an old van and a job as a printer at the Mendocino Beacon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11701101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-240x162.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-375x253.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-520x351.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut.jpg 877w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah’s father, Enrique Monroy, working on an old printing press, at the Mendocino Beacon, circa 1969. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sarah Monroy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I now live in San Francisco — its skyline often ebbing and flowing from view beneath the white cloak of fog. Here, I realize my own version of the American dream by translating the dreams of immigrants into ways I can advocate for them as an attorney. I also realize it by watching my son grow up speaking and reading both English and Spanish, loving the written word as deeply as you and I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Love,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Sarah\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For a series we’re calling “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter to My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to write a short letter to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003cbr>\nWhat happened to it?\u003cbr>\nIs that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a letter from Sarah Monroy to her father, Enrique Monroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear Papá,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You landed in California in 1967, during the month of July. Mendocino was your first home here, unlike any town you had known in Guatemala. Just two years later, also in July, Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. It felt like a momentous echo of your own journey to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">One small step for a Guatemalan boy, one giant leap for human survival. But Neil Armstrong had a home that he went back to, whereas for you, orphaned as a child, there was no home or family waiting for you in Escuintla, Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You clipped the front page of the Time magazine cover with Neil standing next to the words “Man on the Moon.” It stayed pinned on the wall by your desk in our home in Imperial Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11701106\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-800x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-800x575.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-1020x733.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-960x690.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-375x269.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-520x374.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut.jpg 1087w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Monroy in the redwood forest, Avenue of the Giants, circa 1970. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sarah Monroy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Your desert dreams swelled, even in drought years. They overflowed with a hope for cultural survival and language acquisition because, like Neil Armstrong, you had to survive on a foreign moon that neither saw you nor understood your accent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You died when I was very young, but I still hear your American dream in the lingering bellow of the foghorn when I stand beneath the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">The first time I heard that foghorn was on one of our road trips. You pulled over at the last exit for the bridge, our old gray van blending into a mist so thick we could barely see a few yards ahead. I couldn’t believe there was a city this cold in summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11701100\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-800x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-800x576.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-960x691.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-240x173.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-375x270.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-520x374.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut.jpg 963w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Monroy’s older siblings and parents at the Redwood Chandelier Tree, circa 1970. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sarah Monroy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">We’d driven 500 miles and left the desert of Imperial Valley for a short vacation to escape the 120-degree heat. We crossed miles of desert, through layers of marine smells at the Salton Sea. We joined the long trails of cars filling the L.A. freeways like ants pouring into an anthill, until finally we reached the cliff sides of Northern California. Their wind-carved cypresses and old redwood trees made me think of fairy-tale forests and dragons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Only now that I’m a mother do I see how these road trips were not just family vacations to you. They were expressions of hunger to find your American dream. Your dream was taller than the redwoods, and not sated by simply having a family, an old van and a job as a printer at the Mendocino Beacon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11701101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-240x162.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-375x253.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-520x351.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut.jpg 877w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah’s father, Enrique Monroy, working on an old printing press, at the Mendocino Beacon, circa 1969. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sarah Monroy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I now live in San Francisco — its skyline often ebbing and flowing from view beneath the white cloak of fog. Here, I realize my own version of the American dream by translating the dreams of immigrants into ways I can advocate for them as an attorney. I also realize it by watching my son grow up speaking and reading both English and Spanish, loving the written word as deeply as you and I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Love,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Sarah\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For a series we’re calling “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Letter To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to write a short letter to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003cbr>\nWhat happened to it?\u003cbr>\nIs that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a letter from Tai Moses to her father, Morris Moses:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 372px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11694766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32960_1_Dad-in-LA-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32960_1_Dad-in-LA-qut.jpg 372w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32960_1_Dad-in-LA-qut-160x231.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32960_1_Dad-in-LA-qut-240x346.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tai's father, Morris Moses, at the bus stop near his apartment on Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tai Moses)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear Dad,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">In 1954, you arrived in Los Angeles from Coney Island. You came with your portable typewriter and a dream of writing the next great American novel. The year after, your father, who you called 'Pop,' used his savings to buy a train ticket from Coney Island to L.A. Pop showed up one morning at your apartment on Crenshaw Boulevard, carrying his canvas bag of bricklayers’ tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">He slept on the couch while you worked late into the night at your typing table in the corner of the room. Pop would get up early and shine his tools—his hammer, his chisel, his trowels. Tool bag in hand, he’d walk from job site to job site. But people didn’t build with bricks in earthquake country. Every afternoon Pop trudged back to the cramped little apartment, dejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 523px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11694764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32962_3_Pop-in-NYC-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32962_3_Pop-in-NYC-qut.jpg 523w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32962_3_Pop-in-NYC-qut-160x184.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32962_3_Pop-in-NYC-qut-240x275.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32962_3_Pop-in-NYC-qut-375x430.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32962_3_Pop-in-NYC-qut-520x597.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tai's grandfather, Samuel Moses, a Romanian immigrant, worked as a bricklayer in New York City, but couldn’t find a job when he came to Los Angeles in the 1950s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tai Moses)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">The two of you made uneasy roommates. Your dream was to be a published novelist, the next Joseph Heller, and you believed that California, with its limitless horizons and golden light, would make your dream a reality. Pop just wanted a job doing honest labor. You both shared the California dream of opportunity and success. So the two of you came west with the hopes of building a better life; yours with words, Pop’s with brick and mortar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You never did achieve the literary recognition you craved. But you did publish one short story in a literary journal. The title was, “Pop Comes To California,” and it was your masterpiece. I never knew Pop, this grandfather who died long before I was born. But I met him in the pages of your story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 574px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11694765 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32963_5_Mainstream_story-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32963_5_Mainstream_story-qut.jpg 574w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32963_5_Mainstream_story-qut-160x197.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32963_5_Mainstream_story-qut-240x295.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32963_5_Mainstream_story-qut-375x461.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32963_5_Mainstream_story-qut-520x639.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first page of “Pop Comes To California,” published in July 1960 in the literary publication, “Mainstream” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tai Moses)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">To me, the California dream represents freedom—the freedom to be \"the hero of my own life,\" as you liked to say, quoting Dickens. After a lifetime in the Golden State, I’m on the verge of leaving, heading north to Oregon where I hope to write a novel of my own. The price of living in California has risen a bit too high. I still believe in the California dream. I’m just going to look for it somewhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Love,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Tai\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 454px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11694869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32972_MM_TM-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32972_MM_TM-qut.jpg 454w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32972_MM_TM-qut-160x227.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32972_MM_TM-qut-240x340.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32972_MM_TM-qut-375x531.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tai Moses and her father, Morris Moses, in Marina del Rey, California, 1999. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tai Moses)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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You came with your portable typewriter and a dream of writing the next great American novel. The year after, your father, who you called 'Pop,' used his savings to buy a train ticket from Coney Island to L.A. Pop showed up one morning at your apartment on Crenshaw Boulevard, carrying his canvas bag of bricklayers’ tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">He slept on the couch while you worked late into the night at your typing table in the corner of the room. Pop would get up early and shine his tools—his hammer, his chisel, his trowels. Tool bag in hand, he’d walk from job site to job site. But people didn’t build with bricks in earthquake country. 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There you met, courted and married my grandmother. The two of you settled into a small apartment on Union Street above your newly opened dry cleaning business. The California Dream was blossoming in ways you never imagined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">But after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Executive Order 9066 dismantled your life and shattered your dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Within three months, you, your wife and son were herded into internment camps, along with 120,000 other people of Japanese descent. 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