I thought, 'I have been through this process before’…When I was 13 years old I came from Puerto Rico to the United States not knowing any English. Wh… - Esmeralda Santiago

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I thought, 'I have been through this process before’…When I was 13 years old I came from Puerto Rico to the United States not knowing any English. What I did at that time was I went to the public library, and I would go to the children’s book section where there would be alphabet books and everything would be illustrated. So it was very easy to connect the words to the images. I said, ‘I’m just going to do the same thing. If I did it once before, I can do it again.’

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Esmeralda Santiago (born May 17, 1948) is a Puerto Rican author and former actress.

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