… could only manage to breathe, “I don’t understand why I cannot graduate next year and then leave.” My principal looked at my mom and explained to me that if I were to go forward, graduate, and present that I was leaving the country, the government was going to send the documentation and have me on hold for five more years of mandatory service as payment for my education. It was never clear where I would be sent, and my mom had already been waiting for too long. This w…