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Speaker 4: Were you born eighty eight? You're born in eighty eight

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Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child

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Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border

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Speaker 4: Fortunate, but I've seen it happen and in any group

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Speaker 3: Nah, I couldn't do that. My parents had a restaurant.

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Speaker 5: People really don't understand that being and it's something I

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Speaker 5: But like when I started teaching it and I started coaching,

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Speaker 5: So like that being in New York City, like those

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Speaker 3: I didn't realize it was trauma until I got to

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Speaker 3: I think New York is completely different than it was

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Speaker 3: I remember it was. I just remember like it's more

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, the gang thing, the gang thing that was

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Speaker 4: They were still like tripping off of colors like that now,

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Speaker 3: I remember like being afraid to get a book fifty

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Speaker 3: then it was like yo, I don't know about going there.

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Speaker 4: But she was also a kid though too.

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: Your environment, that's all you know. It's like said eight

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Speaker 5: we better be on God if we leave here.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, So, I mean it was interesting. I think that

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Speaker 3: all of that just kind of made me who I am,

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