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Contributor:
Franco S (45)
Miami, North America
Triumph Over Adversity
The Mango Tree in the Parking Lot
I used to hate the mango tree. It grew wild in the back corner of the strip mall where my parents ran a laundromat—wedged between a dumpster and the parking lot, its roots cracked the pavement and dropped fruit that ...
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