I spent most of my life in the United States. I went to elementary school, middle school, and high school there, and later enrolled at a prestigious American university. From the outside, everything looked exactly the way my family wanted it to.
The broken chain tattoo below my collarbone is the one decision I made without asking anyone. It reminds me that I do not want to spend the rest of my life playing the same role.
My family knows the daughter they raised. They do not know the person I became after midnight.