With A Sword At My Throat And The Cliff Behind Me...

I'm a foreign national in a post graduate internship in Washington DC. I was offered a academic scholarship to a liberal studies school in Connecticut. I was 'housed' in a dorm with other foreign students. I spent five years and never made friends with American girls. I currently live with a girl from Xian, a girl from Mumbai and a girl from Bolivia. We share a two bedroom two bath condo. We are all liberal thinkers and outspoken lesbians. Returning to my country is not an option. My family doesn't support me, there are no jobs that pay enough for women like me. Socially ostracized and underemployed.

I've been cleaning up my social media. I need a full time job with a company to sponsor me. My only other card is to get married to an American citizen. For all the wrong reasons I would have to marry a male. I should confess that I don't have a suitable woman in the wings either. I have one 'proposal', a Cuban American from Florida, from a hard core right leaning family. He shares those views. He has told me he wants to wash my ears out and refocus me, in the bedroom.

I have nine weeks before my visa expires, I have no prospects for legal full time employment. My skill set is not STEM or "Tech". A job maybe, but I have to get my work visa or residency. Back to getting married. I've approached my father and uncle. I need their permission to marry outside the 'society'. My Grandmother wants me married, period. No woman has ever married as old as I am.

The Devil you know, or social annihilation back in my country. I have to take my chances with a sword to my throat, and get an American passport.