Building a Wall

Emily Popek
5 min readJan 26, 2018
Image by Michael Schwarzenberger from Pixabay

“Tell me the story of our trip again, Mama.”

My 5-year-old daughter is in bed and I am sitting next to her with my hand resting on her back.

In one week, we are leaving on a vacation to the Caribbean. She has been on an airplane before but never to another country.

She is nervous.

“Tell me the story again.”

I understand her need…

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Emily Popek

Emily F. Popek, a school communications professional and freelance journalist, lives in upstate New York with her family.