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Of Two Worlds: A Mexican-American Wedding

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Apr. × ’10

By Sarah

Susy and I have always shared issues of otherness, but mine are intellectual flirtations, mazes explored intentionally with the constant possibility of escape, whereas hers have been deeply instilled and inescapable since childhood. Susy is Mexican-American, and has spent her life split between the two countries; speaking Spanish and English, eating menudo in Nogales and [...]

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Of Two Worlds: A Mexican-American Wedding

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