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… congressional sessions. As a Colombian-born woman, I welcomed this new female face in the political arena. She spoke … know then that in addition to being Colombian, she was also French. That Betancourt was taken hostage by the FARC … used). There were three types of retentions: Generals, soldiers, and policemen were taken as prisoners of war. …

… informally known as the Camp, is a sprawling, walled-in compound of low-lying cinder-block buildings and trailers … to seek asylum. Immigration courts are administrative bodies, divided into regional districts that have developed … requires interrogating the data from multiple vantage points. First, Sanchez and I dug into the effects of having …

… plate to show the person he was looking at when he died. My brother died, staring at no one. On the way to the funeral, I … a single tune on a toy piano because on the day my brother died, we saw trained pigeons at the state     fair. Smoke …

… let Francis race around until he runs out of gas and then becomes something or someone else. Still, the neighbor’s … be right, but I am not sure. When Mollie, his first wife, died, my great-grandfather Pickering buried her in the upper … Public Schools.” Scoring nine out of a possible ten points on all her examinations, Nannie was certified to …

… At the right time I’d say I was sorry his father had died. It was certain my father wouldn’t be there, but I still ran my eyes over the platform. He knew I was coming. So did my brother Billy, but on Friday night Billy … asked the driver. I didn’t answer. There were silver points of fear in his eyes. And he spoke no more. My …