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October 2009

REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE

Struggling for identity, a Puerto Rican-born radical loses himself in the bottle

My parents abandoned me while I was still a baby, after my father put a bullet in my mother's back. Raised by older relatives who were illiterate and very poor, and never feeling accepted by my foster father, I grew up with a sense of insecurity, fear and, at times, shame.

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