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Jun 23 2011

My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant

WOW. Now, that’s real life. Vargas-you’re a hero! Go Spartans!

soupsoup:

In April 2008, I was part of a Post team that won a Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings a year earlier. Lolo died a year earlier, so it was Lola who called me the day of the announcement. The first thing she said was, “Anong mangyari kung malaman nang tao?”

What will happen if people find out?

I couldn’t say anything. After we got off the phone, I rushed to the bathroom on the fourth floor of the newsroom, sat down on the toilet and cried.

via soupsoup
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    Amazing story. Brave man. “Anong mangyayari kung malaman ng mga tao?”
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    WOW. Now, that’s real life. Vargas-you’re...hero! Go Spartans!
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