Interesting:
‘Texas in my heart’: Aging Tongans still call Euless home
“We never put anyone in a nursing home or senior home,” says Penilotu “Peni” Asaeli, among the South Pacific islanders who have settled in Euless. Instead, the tightknit families keep their elders close.
[Caption] Penilotu Asaeli and his wife, Losa, live with their daughter in Euless, where over 3,00 people from Tonga, a South Pacific island chain, have settled. (Lawrence Jenkins / Special Contributor)
By Harriet L. Blake
Special Contributor
The Dallas Morning News
June 6, 2019
The first thing you need to know about the Tongan people is that no matter how far they are from their South Pacific home, they stay together.
Euless happens to be home to more than 3,000 Tongans, many of whom settled here in the mid-’70s. They came for a better life for their families and jobs with the airlines and at DFW International Airport.
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Yeah, I played rugby against them.