I haven't lived long enough to have experienced as many life battles as my Dad, but in those few years of my life, I have been given a battle that will surely matter to me even in the next twenty, thirty years: ACNE. I know I should be writing my manuscript, but this write-up is ten years overdue. I was one of the first people who got acne in my class when I was in...
I came from a typical Asian family. My father is a diligent, hardworking man who spent half of his life providing for our family; sent us to the best universities and only ever wanted the best for us. My mother is a caring housewife who tended to all our needs from cooking all our meals to looking for our missing socks. Between the two of them, my father is the strict parent while my mom...