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While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

Raquel Cepeda , em Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
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...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

Raquel Cepeda , em Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
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