Growing Up an American Immigrant

Liya Khaimova
8 min readDec 9, 2019

A journey on discovering what being an American means

Photo by Andrew Butler on Unsplash

I’m an American through and through. English is my native tongue and it’s the language I think and dream in. I’m a citizen — even though I didn’t become one until the third grade — and have the Pledge of Allegiance and Star-Spangled Banner etched in the front of my brain for life.

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Liya Khaimova

I have a muggle day job, write, sing, and do voiceover by night, along with all the other projects happening in my life. Cat mom. She/her.