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While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

Raquel Cepeda

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Raquel Cepeda
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 9
Journalist
Music Journalist
Harlem
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Home
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