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Juanito: A Short Story
Juanito is my name, it's been a lot of days without seen the sun, iwork alot.My mother is dead and my father said that he is to old and can't visit me.My my time goes by, thinking of my family and the people that stayed in the desert and i think that i could have been one of them.

Right now i'm in san diego california the closest place to mexico when i look i always think of heading back to mexico but i also think of getting caught and hold back for jail and it will be worst because i'll lose everything now in 20171869 when everything is difficult with donald trump herre in the USA.Europe.

I have a lot of problems in my life like i can't see my parents and the bad government that wants us to do anything that they tell us
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