Glad you published it, Mr. Tran. Thanks! I happen to volunteer at a drop-in center in my town's family public housing project. As it happened, I saw your artic

Glad you published it, Mr. Tran. Thanks! I happen to volunteer at a drop-in center in my town's family public housing project. As it happened, I saw your article shortly after my colleagues and I had wrangled $1000 for a poor immigrant kid on short notice. It was a tuition payment for a program for high school kids at one of our local world-renowned medical schools. So, I was able to send your article to my colleagues, the kid, and her mother saying "this is why we do what we do." Now we have to support this kid while she participates in this program. Hopefully she'll talk to us about what she's going through, and put any shame aside. Almost anybody reading this can do something to help open up opportunity. It doesn't have to be a grand gesture requiring megabucks. If you don't have time to get organized, give some money to the scholarship fund at your local community college. If you do have time to get organized, call the guidance counselor at your local high school and ask if there's a support program for first-generation college-bound students or something similar. Who knows? Maybe you'll meet somebody who ends up taking a trip to Sweden one day to collect a Nobel Prize. You can say "I knew her when."