“Spanish was my first language. Honestly, I learned to first speak in Spanish, not English, because my poor mother had to go to San Diego every day to work and then come back. And she would come home when I was an infant long after I was asleep.”

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The Hummingbird's Daughter

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Into the beautiful North

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The Devil's Highway

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Queen of America

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