“I didn’t leave Puerto Rico. A mí me sacaron,” she tells me, referring to her exodus from Puerto Rico as a girl from San Juan. “I think nobody would prefer to leave that way.”

— Esmeralda Santiago Puerto Rican Author Esmeralda Santiago On Preserving Boricua Stories: “They Belong To Us”" in Remezcla (2018)

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