Family

I started working in the fields when I was 12 years old. My dad would take me and my sisters during vacations when the grape harvest would start.

The Daughter of Farmworkers

The hitting stopped, but the verbal abuse and drunkenness didn’t

The Pérez Family

I'm living a very stormy moment in my life.

Storms

The doctors told us that he had died because of all the pesticide that is put on the land and because of all the time he worked in the fields.

Wings to Wind

I could never call her Mom. Not even on her deathbed.

My Sadness

I'd come sitting down the mountains and we had to cross a river at 2 a.m. I felt as though it almost dragged me away. There were rattlesnakes. We listened to them, but God is great and helped us to come to this country.

Crossing The Border “Like A Phoenix”

Halfway through my senior year in high school, I decided that I wouldn’t continue with applications to college or community college...

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