Comic #7125: tongue

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Here is the transcription of the text from the comic:

Panel 1: "They’ll never understand how in my mother’s tongue, I was a poet. In this country, I am just a cook."

Panel 2: "I came here for work. For my children to have a chance in this world."

Panel 3: "I speak to them in our language. They speak back in English. And they laugh."

Panel 4: "I gave everything to get them here. Everything. Now I drive them to school and they run away so their friends won’t hear me."

Panel 5: "Ours is a language spoken by kings and conquerors! Philosophers and artists!"

Panel 6: "Herdy ger! Hoody froody froo!"

Panel 7: "What's with your dad?"

Panel 8: "He's having a bad morning, can we talk about something else?"

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