My Life As An Immigrant

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I was born in Dolores Hidalgo , a small and beautiful town from Guanajuato Mexico , when I was in Mexico I lived in a small community , it was beautiful , a lot of grass and trees around the houses , you could see people walking around , the kids playing in the street , everybody was always happy , I knew everybody who was living there , so I used to talk to all my neighbors and they always were with a smile in their face . I lived in a big house with my mom , my brother and my three sisters , while my father was living here in San Antonio , the reason why he was living here was because there are more jobs over here in than in Mexico , my oldest brother followed my dad steeps and emigrated to the U.S when he was 16 years old , he came for the same reason as my dad , my father visited us every 6 months .

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