Obligations and graduations: What my time as a farmworker taught me about sacrifice

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By Myrka MorenoJun 27, 2020, 3:55 am253 pts
The day I turned 13, I started working as a farmworker along with my three siblings. My brothers and sister had left our home in South Texas every summer to work in Iowa’s cornfields for as long as I could remember. It was my first job, but it felt more like a rite of passage. My first summer away from home,…

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