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Green Card Marriage

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When you're dating someone from another country in your home country, it's only natural for it to come across your mind whether the person is not interested in you, but your citizen status. Admittedly, Kaz worried me in the very beginning. Our second date was the day after our first (I was the one who asked him on a second date so quickly.) At the end, while I was wondering if we'd share our first kiss, instead he popped the question, "Will you be my girlfriend?" I said yes before my brain could reboot and I could take a second to think. The next day, I expressed my worries that we were rushing the relationship. He explained that he hopes to get married before 30, and later he further explained that he hopes to work in the U.S. and getting married to an American would give him U.S. work status, and as such, access to better jobs than if he had to find a company to sponsor his work status (many companies don't want to have to go through the extra effort.) I...

Airplane Care Package

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Kazzy's going to France for a couple of weeks, and my mom decided we should have a combination bon voyage celebration for him, and birthday party for my aunt. Naturally, I was expected to arrange this. Including inviting people whose contact info I didn't have. I got it done 'cause I'm a ninja like that. Anyway, my last task to earn an A+ was to find some bon voyage trinkets. Which Party City has. Except when I went there, I realized they only sold the one thing I was looking for online, and in packs of 24. Which is why I came up with this care package instead. It's a good way to keep travel essentials in one place. Tuesday Morning sells all kinds and sizes of cute fancy boxes and fake books. This one is about the length of my hand, which means it's small enough to slip into a carry-on (unless you or your loved one packs like I do.) The picture with my hand is for size reference. These are some things I thought might be useful on a plane, or jus...