It's interesting sometimes to analyze yourself especially when someone catches you off guard and asks you a question that you've never really pondered. A few days ago someone, a student, asked me who I was. Not the literal question, duh, I'm Señora! But the symbolic and meaningful one... Who are you really? So here's my answer... (This is a rant. A run-on, long, grammatically incorrect expression of my inner most thoughts about myself. So, grammar Nazis beware...) I was born Olga Adalis Torres Rivera! Now, I am Olga Adalis Torres de López! Yes, that's EXACTLY what my marriage license says. I am the daughter of Maria Olga Rivera Vélez (the most amazing woman ever to walk this earth!) and Fabio Torres Rico (not the most amazing man to walk this Earth!). I was born in 1975 in Arecibo, Puerto Rico but grew up in Castañer, Vega Baja, Puerto Nuevo and Worcester, MA. I am the product of two cultures but really belong to three. I am Puerto Rican, Colombian, a...
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