An Emotional Moment
It wasn’t just a victory for Arlen, but her whole family. From the podium, she could see her family crying. “It still makes me choke up that they were crying tears of joy,” she said. “And it was so powerful because for the first time in this whole journey, we weren’t crying tears of pain, tears of fear. We were crying tears of joy and we could celebrate. We could finally be like, ‘We’re OK.’ Things are going to be OK.”