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Who is Cesar Chavez to me?

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A migrant labor leader icon.

Tazo Chai Tea Latte Iced Caramel Macchiato

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It's complicated enough name for a tea. The price of my curiosity is $3.50. It comes with milk. I am tired of telling barristas to make mine with half and half. I have to bear my lactose intolerance.

Brats plucked

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I am sitting at Ross, dress for less, right now. Unmindful of the economic activity going on around me. A guy talks or argues on his cellphone in Arabic. Victoria, a nice lady from Iran who I used to work with when I was still doing food service work for the unified school district tends the check-out register. Filipinos talk loudly in Tagalog. And I am sitting on one of the chairs by the entrance of the dress-for-less shoppers bored and blogging. Earlier I berated the former preciousl little one about her spending or finding things she thinks she needs and had to be bought for her or bought with her allowance. I was following RN in the A6 to Jim and Bert's Auto repair to deliver the big kid's Forenza for further diagnostic tests. The former precious little one was riding along in anticipation of several hours of disappearance at Forever 21 to look for a $10 fancy dress she could wear at her English class activity tomorrow. "Why do you need to buy a new dress whe...

The Defector

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This is the book that got me started with Daniel Silva novels. I was in 5th grade when I started reading book condensations in the Readers' Digest. I read about a family defecting from Berlin.

Goeff Yousef

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It is my new gnome de plume who a week ago joined Pha Khin Phat temple from Amazon.com. His name came from go elf yourself. He is an elf dressed as ninja complete with a samurai ensemble. "You're regressing," Cuyamaca tells me. Cuyamaca is a male co-worker who does the same 3D job that I do. Dirty, demeaning and dumb. Cuyamaca is not his real name of course. I heard Dominadora calling him Kuya and I started chiding him as Cuyamaca. Cuyamaca is a Native American domain in the eastern part of San Diego county where the Kumeyaay tribe habitate. I have since empowered myself. I can write fuck and what the fuck without batting an eyelash. I got the power to express what I wanted to before I got this gnome de plume. I got the power after several years of celebrating March 8 as international women's day. Okay, let me go back. Today is Goeff Yousef's debut. He was dressed as a ninja but he came out looking like a Taliban. I would come back to tell you about his fucki...