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When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis.
Luis Alberto Urrea
Luis Alberto Urrea
Born: Aug 20, 1955

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Boy, Left, Tuberculosis, Wonderland, Dying, Little, Four

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