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Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I understand her like a woman instead of a child. Everybody thought she was a whore. She wasn__. She tried to step across the border of who she was and who she might be. They wouldn__ let her. She didn__ believe it herself so she stepped across into a whole other country.
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Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I understand her like a woman instead of a child. Everybody thought she was a whore. She wasn__. She tried to step across the border of who she was and who she might be. They wouldn__ let her. She didn__ believe it herself so she stepped across into a whole other country.

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