When the gym reopened about two months later, Lee fractured her left ankle on a fall from the uneven bars. In the video call, Lee said, her mother asked her aunt to watch over the family. Lee grew up in St. Paul, in an area heavily populated by Hmong immigrants who came to the United States to seek refuge after the Vietnam War ended in 1975. From there, they headed to the St. Paul area, where about 80,000 Hmong now live. “People say the United States is the land of opportunity, and I’m living proof of that,” John Lee said Thursday in a telephone interview.

Source: New York Times July 29, 2021 22:40 UTC