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Following up on this week’s text about immigration, I am sharing a short story I wrote for an anthology titled Immigrant Voices: 21st Century, edited by Achy Obejas and published by the Great Books foundation in 2014.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one

Martin Heidegger

“Oh no!”, little Diógenes screamed, as he lost his grasp of the anim…

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