After two decades Miguel Gonzalez is speaking out about his family's struggles to get asylum from Colombia in the United States, because he dreams of the day when he and his family don't have to live and work in the shadows.

2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one."

2 Lives is written and hosted by Laurel Morales, story edited by Camila Kerwin of the Rough Cut Collective. Halle Hewitt is our assistant producer. Annie Gerway is our illustrator and web designer. Music from Blue Dot Sessions.

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