But as I became more Americanized, I also began to lose bits and pieces of myself, parts of me that I can never get back, and no matter how much I tried to pretend that I was the same as my American classmates, I wasn't.
Pero a medida que me americanicé, también comencé a perder partes y pedazos de mí, partes de mí que nunca pudieron regresar, y no importa cuánto intenté disimular que era igual a mis compañeros americanos, no lo era.