A young woman who grew up translating for her immigrant parents in medical offices, government agencies, and parent-teacher conferences carries into adulthood capacities she did not choose to develop but now cannot imagine being without: the ability to move between worlds, to read situations from multiple angles simultaneously, to find words that bridge what seems unbridgeable, skills that employers value without understanding where they came from or what developing them cost, her childhood responsibility having become adult competency in ways that neither erase the burden she carried nor d