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I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a label than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.

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Erin Gruwell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 15
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Glendora
California
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