Plano Profile Interview

A 7-year-old child climbs onto her father’s lap and embraces his warmth. It’s story time and on this particular day, her father has a surprise.

“Chameleon,” says the child’s father, “Today I am going to give you a gift.”

The child looks at her father’s empty hands and says, “Papa, I don’t see a gift.”

The father looks down with his blue eyes and says, ‘Mi hija, (my daughter), you cannot touch it; you cannot feel it; you cannot even see it. The gift I am giving you is an invisible box, and every time you sit on my lap, I want you to put my stories in this box.”

Thirty years later, Carmen Corrales Konneker bound her father’s stories in a book called My Father’s Quest: The True Story of an Orphan’s Journey.

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