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Three immigrant students are becoming financial planners to help others achieve their American dreams By Lauren Quinn
When finances get lost in translation
Jocelyn Li started thinking about money and finances long before most children do, but it wasn’t because of an innate desire to get rich. She just wanted her dad back. When Jocelyn was only 6 months old, her father moved from Shanghai to Los Angeles to earn a better salary to support his young family. But due to financial difficulty, he didn’t go back to China to visit for more than five years. “For the first six years of my life, I didn’t see my dad. I just didn’t know him,” Jocelyn says. “My grandma would always tell me that if we could have saved enough, my dad would have come back earlier. So the concept of money has been on my mind for a long time.”
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