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just what I was feeling at the time.

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Senator Kamala Harris

This Oakland, California native is running for United Stated President in 2020 in hopes to create an America “where leaders lead with decency… and always fight on the…

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The Gaza Strip Conflict

Written by ELLA

         Through my confusion, I think I’ve begun to understand the conflict between Israel and Palestine… or in Israel and Palestine? Or between the Israeli’s…

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The War in Chicago

Written by ELLA

     Chicago’s children are being gunned down down the street from their homes – right here on roads that were supposed to be paved of…

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chapter 3: a fatherless child

When I was nine months old, my father crashed into the pole of a backlit sign that read “Londsdale Liquors”, exactly 0.5 miles from my home. My mom went away the summer after kindergarten and came home when I was in the end of second grade. I did not like her when I met her…

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Chapter 2: no more Christmases

At 7 years old, I was praying for a Nickelodeon mom, whose main concern would be me and my after school snacks. Instead, my mom sat at the head of the table like a deer in headlights. Doña Colombia threw her a homecoming party; in my mom’s house, scratching up her floors & breaking what…

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Chapter 1 : Where’s mom?

I woke up because something was different. I was 5 years old, and as far as I could remember, my mom had been there when I woke up. I didn’t have my own room until I was about 10. The room was in the back corner of the railroad style house. When you walked out…

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