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• If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground

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  Travel, Home, Years

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody, she felt, understood her-not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie - except her man.

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  Girl, Mother, Brother

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.

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  Ends

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• We travel with the same clan over and over again, from one life to the next, until some ultimate purpose is fulfilled and we no longer need to return.

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  Needs, Purpose, Next

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.

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  Adventure, Past, Band

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.

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  Levels, Next, Coincidence

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• This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

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  Divorce, Years, Parent

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.

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  Home, Names, Paradise

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people

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  Beautiful, Travel, Thinking

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Women destroy me. I allow them to.

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  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

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  New York, Home, Thinking

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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