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If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city are in the poorest neighborhoods, where people don't have cars.
Sandra Cisneros
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Sandra Cisneros
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 20
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To me, the Virgen de Guadalupe is just a vessel for me to recognize my own God within myself.
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I never paid attention when people said, That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction, except when I was in a graduate program, and you had to claim your genre.
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