19. In the drawers were free napkins, cups, utensils, and mini shampoo bottles your parents hoarded from hotels.
Also shower caps, though no one in your family has ever used one before.
20. Saturdays, you studied your parents' native tongues. Sundays, you practiced an instrument. Your dad was rad if he let you pick the guitar.
21. Your friends were always wondering why your parents were arguing. That's just how they speak.
22. Everyone was your aunt or uncle, but you had no idea if they were actually related to you.
Also your parents called each other Mom and Dad instead of their first names. In fact, you didn't even know adults had first names.
24. People always assume that you're related to another Lee/Chung/Nguyen/Hong/Kim that they know.
25. Nothing will stop your aunts from trying to set you up with royal bores with Ivy League degrees.
"Mom, we have nothing in common." "But she's a doctor from Harvard!"
26. Every year, you got money in red envelopes on New Year's.
27. Finally: Your parents gave you everything they had and spent nothing on themselves. They know firsthand the dangers of the world, and their work isn't done until they see you settled and safe.
Their clothes are 20 years old, but they sent you to college. They may be too stoic to say, "I love you," but you know they do, and you wouldn't change anything! Thanks, Mom and Dad!