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The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.

Wendy C. Ortiz

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Wendy C. Ortiz
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: May 16
Essayist
Poet
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LA
California
Terror
Available
Comfort
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Family
Mother
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Women
Grandmother
Always
Protection

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