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00:10Toronto's Chinatown is jammed.
00:13It used to be one city block.
00:18Now it's 20.
00:24My mother is Helen Long.
00:31There are about 100,000 of us now living in Toronto.
00:37This picture was taken in China when she was 17 years old.
00:43In this one, she was a university student.
00:50When she was 19, she had the chance to immigrate.
00:59This is Windsor, Ontario.
01:03She says,
01:05We thought Canada would be Gem's son, the land of the Golden Mountain.
01:14She worked seven days a week as a waitress for $18.
01:19She was disappointed.
01:23We now live in a suburb.
01:29My mother is a perfectionist.
01:31Everything she does has to be just right.
01:35But she is not completely content as a housewife.
01:40She sometimes says she'd like to go back to school.
01:44But language is a problem.
01:50She tells us,
01:52You are my shadows.
01:54You'll be able to do things I wanted to do and be.
01:58I see my children as part of me.
02:01This is your time.
02:03I had my chance.
02:16She has no regrets.
02:19It's been good.
02:23Husband is successful engineer with the Department of Transport.
02:35Winston is 17.
02:37He's in high school.
02:40Nancy is in fine arts at university.
02:47I've graduated.
02:49My career is ahead of me.
02:56And she's the one who's held it all together.
02:59And she's the one who's held it all together.
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