We were middle class by Ethiopian standards , not poor . ' Lemma : When she was sixteen , she went to the US thinking she would be studying abroad . Inside a few weeks , it became clear her family had been misled about her American ` ` adoption '' Lemma : ` ` All the lies and deception boiled down to money '' Now a graduate student , she has n't seen her family in Ethiopia for seven years .
' Lemma : When she was sixteen , she went to the US thinking she would be studying abroad . Inside a few weeks , it became clear her family had been misled about her American ` ` adoption '' Lemma : ` ` All the lies and deception boiled down to money '' Now a graduate student , she has n't seen her family in Ethiopia for seven years .