I Want To Be A Mexican American

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As a Mexican American it’s kind of hard growing up, why you may ask? I was born and raised by a Mexican women and a Mexican man, who came to the United States for better opportunities. The place was always peaceful and quiet, at first everything was fine until my father decided to cheat on my mother and left us by the time I was three year old. All of this has helped characterize who I want to be.
As a single mom, she had to get many jobs but she never give up on us. She move to Chicago because my mom was looking for a better job. Chicago wasn’t the place for her and moved to Florida again, we saw my father again and he bought us a trailer house and the house was damaged, broken, dirty, smelly,

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