I am White and Latina, bilingual, with a Uruguayan father and American mother. Papá emigrated from Uruguay to the U.S. in 1963. My mother left St. Louis, Missouri in 1964 to teach ballet on the west coast. They met and married in San Francisco, California, where I was born. We moved to Portland, Oregon when I was eight. I currently live eleven months of the year in Beaverton, Oregon, with my two cats, and one month of the year in Uruguay with my father's close knit family.
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