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I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.

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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
Faculty Member
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Junot Diaz
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Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory you won't see it often.
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In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.
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I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.
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Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.
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You can't regret the life you didn't lead.
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Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
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[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.
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You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.
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The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.
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Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.
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