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Monday, June 29, 2009

A Baker Tells Her Family Story

I got here around 30 years ago from a little town called Atlixco, in Puebla, Mexico. My older brother was the one who started this business 37 years ago. Then, all the family came, one by one. Now we are split. We were 14 brothers, six living in the United States, four living back in Puebla, and two are dead.

I started to work when I was eight years old. That is the way of life if you are poor in Mexico. No school, just work. That is the main reason we came to the United States, to progress, to have a better future for our children.

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