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From Aliso Village to Stanford: Boyle Heights-raised author recounts beating the odds in new memoir
Adriana Martínez was 3 years old when she and her family moved from Pico-Union to Boyle Heights in 1974. They settled in Aliso Village, an underfunded and neglected low-income housing development notoriously known for its gang activity in the 1980s. Her mom watched like a hawk as Martínez and...
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