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Richard Rodriguez - This is what matters to me: the...

This is what matters to me: the story of the scholarship boy who returns home one summer from college to discover bewildering silence, facing his parents. This is my story. (Richard Rodriguez)

This is what matters to me: the story of the scholarship boy who returns home one summer from college to discover bewildering silence, facing his parents. This is my story.

Richard Rodriguez

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