
I was born in Cuba, as was my entire extended family. They're all still there - I'm the only member of my family who made it to the United States. When I was very young, my father fashioned an old car into a floating raft that held 20 of...
posted 5/6/2008 4:09:50 PM by
AlejandroA -
Miami, FL
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I was biking to work in New York one afternoon and I thought that I could fit between a parked car and a double parked truck. As I was riding through the truck started to move and pull closer to the curb, and I fell over with my foot stuck...
posted 5/3/2008 2:24:30 PM by
AlisonS -
NEW YORK, NY
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Dear Jerry,
Mine is not a story of devastation, but one of surviving a lifetime of challenges which have eaten away at the fabric of who I am.
As a very brief background; I grew up as the daughter of a kind and gentle army officer (who was often...
posted 8/16/2008 8:38:44 AM by
JuliaQ -
Phoenix, AZ
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