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Reflective Essay: My Journey To New Mexico
I have witnessed many times that someone has demonstrated leadership. Not one is as intriguing as the one I want to share with you today. It was when my mother lived in Mexico when she was 20 years old. When she got married she came to America. She decided to go to New Mexico. That is where she stayed with a couple who had one daughter. They owned a car dealership. My father worked for the husband by washing cars. My mother was a maid at home, taking care of the child as if she was one of hers. She didn't have any children until one day she found out in November. She told the couple that they would be going back to Mexico in December because she was pregnant. As followed she left for Mexico. No one in my family had left for America because

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