Humans Of AR

An Interview with a freshman at Academy Of The Redwoods.

By Seth M. from Academy of the Redwoods in California

“My Grandpa, I have always been close to him, we used to go on walks together. Like we used to hang out when I was little.”

"2016, when I first came here, I had to leave my grandpa, most of my family in India and my friends. I had no one to hang out with and my family was all older than me so I had no one to hang out because I was the smallest one”

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