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In the article “ Keeping Close to Home”, the writer Gloria Watkins was grow up in the small town named Kentucky. As a african american female during the time when she went to college. It was really hard for her because of her culture and the place that she is from. In the United states of america during that time, it was quiet discriminates not just as an african american and also as a female. When she got acceptted from the university of standford, watkins knew that her life will change and she wanted it to be change but watkins’s parents think of it in exactly the different way than watkins. They wished watkin can attende to the college which is close to home, like other normal people in their town. Watkins

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