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“Carolina Aguilar migrated north. She left behind poverty, gangs and the comfort of her family and friends. She traveled to a distant, different world to give herself and her kids a shot at the American Dream.
No, Aguilar didn’t crawl through the U.S. border across the hot desert. She traversed the Edens, in an odyssey that took her from the Little Village neighborhood — where as a teen she gave birth to three children out of wedlock, bid farewell to her prison-bound boyfriend, lost her nephew and brother to gang violence — all the way to an office in suburban Northbrook and a nice clean apartment in Arlington Heights.”
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