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Jul 2018
17m 13s

Sin vergüenza

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Maria Murriel used to struggle with living between languages and cultures, and for many years tried to hide that she was an immigrant in the United States. Eventually, she realized that what she had been treating as a challenge was actually a key part of her identity.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3oAezg3.

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