What doesn't kill you, makes you fat. - Esmeralda Santiago

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"I didn't leave Puerto Rico. A mí me sacaron," she tells me, referring to her exodus from Puerto Rico as a girl from San Juan. "I think nobody would prefer to leave that way."

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For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.

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How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unknown?

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