Monday, August 31, 2009

Invisible Immigrants, Old, Isolated and Left With Nobody to Talk To - NYTimes.com

Invisible Immigrants, Old, Isolated and Left With Nobody to Talk To - NYTimes.com

Together, they fend off the well of loneliness and isolation that so often accompany the move to this country late in life from distant places, some culturally light years away.

“If I don’t come here, I have sealed lips, nobody to talk to,” said Devendra Singh, a 79-year-old widower. Meeting beside the parking lot, the men were oblivious to their fellow mall rats, backpack-carrying teenagers swigging energy drinks.



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