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    Sonic Trace

    The Day My Father Said Goodbye

    A father talks about the day he left his family and moved to the US.

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    By Anayansi Diaz-Cortes • Jun 16, 2014 • 2m Listen

    For Fathers' Day, producer Anayansi Díaz-Cortes interview her father, Rafael Díaz-Cortes, about leaving Mexico for the US. It was 1983 and she was three years old. They had no idea when they would see each other again. "It was a combination of sadness, love with my own fear of leaving my two young kids without their father," Rafael remembers. Listen to Rafael talk about the first time he saw his children again.

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      Anayansi Diaz-Cortes

      Independent Producer, Creator of KCRW’s Sonic Trace

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