Oh God, I didn't think I was going to cry.

- Both of them left their families

and knew no one and came to this foreign country.

- My mom moved to America

and didn't get to see her family or her siblings

for almost 20 or 30 years.

Didn't get to see her mom's funeral.

Didn't get to see her siblings grow up

with their families because she was living in America.

- My mom used to come to my elementary school

every year with traditional dress and a Quran

and a prayer rug to like teach the kids about Ede.

One year after she came, a lot of kids made fun

of sort of the way she dressed

and what she was doing and what she was talking about

and I was really angry at her

and I told her, like never to come back again

because I was really, really embarrassed

and she listened, but I think she was really hurt.

- I remember when I went to India in 2008 with my mom

for a wedding, she said that was the first time

she had ever visited the Taj Mahal

even though she grew up in India and the reason was

that she just spent her life working for us.

- My dad, before he died,

he was looking for all these jobs

of things that he didn't love to do

and he loved playing music,

but he knew that he had to make a little more money .

- They took odd jobs.

My dad worked at a restaurant, he cut grass.

I remember stories that they used to look for aluminum cans

to recycle from the neighborhood.

- When I was in kindergarten,

I remember that my mom she sat me down

and asked me would you like it if I stayed home more

so I could hang out with you

and I said yes and so she gave up her career

as a computer engineer

to become a full time mom.

- My mom was encouraged to be a stay at home mom

in her older years.

She felt really isolated because it contributed

to her not being able to learn English

and make friends outside of the family circle.

- I used to cry every time that my mom

would drop me off.

There's like a video of me at daycare

and I was like three years old and I ran after her

and they had to go get me

and my mom would cry too

cause she didn't want to leave me,

but she had to work.

- Even to this day,

my parents are still struggling like financially.

When I got into college I got into UCLA and USC.

UCLA being a public school,

which was a lot cheaper than USC, a private school,

and my dad just said go wherever you want

and we'll figure it out.

My parents had to take out a lot of loans and stuff.

I didn't get any scholarships or anything.

We're still paying those off right now.

Yeah.

- Oh man, okay.

- Hi mom and dad.

- Mom, dad.

- Mom.

- Thank you for all the little things that you did

that I didn't know about.

- Especially as a single mom

raising us all by herself.

- And even to this day working six days a week still.

- I know I don't always say it,

but I really appreciate

everything you've done for me.

- I'm sorry for the way I acted as a kid

because I'm not ashamed of you.

I'm really proud of you

and I'm really proud

of who you are

and I'm really sorry that I used to pretend

that I was white.

(sobbing) I'm really sorry that I used to pretend

that I wasn't Muslim and...

- Thank you for everything.

You did more than I ever deserved.

Sorry.

- I love you.

- Thanks mom.

- Thank you.

- All of the sacrifices they made,

by the time I came along and like was aware of it,

it's almost like they had already done all the ground work

so that I thought my life was easy.