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I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.
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Ana Castillo
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 15
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Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.
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Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.
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