As an immigrant who came to this country from Peru at age 4, I spent half of my days in kindergarten occupied with learning the rules of the English language. At home, my mom would often create games to help my sister and me preserve our Spanish and improve our grammar. But as my parents became more fluent (and my sister and I more dominant) in English, the boundaries became blurred. Being bilingual empowered us to break barriers beyond the rules and definitions attached to words. Some ideas are so embedded in Latin American and Spanish cultures that they exist implicitly.

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Persons: I’d Locations: Peru, Miami, Spanish, —