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I am Lorena Borjas

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 Who am I? It seems to be an easy question to answer, but in reality I had a lot of thinking to do and process. Maybe  because I don't get  asked a lot to talk about who I am? I thought about what has shaped me to be the way I am now. What have I went through to become what I am today. The people who influenced me as I was growing up. The music, the shows, the movies I was brought up with. I also thought on the different identities I take depending on the setting I'm at, and I behave the way I behave the way I do.   So I'll start by saying that I come from two immigrant parents (Manuel Macias Borjas & Blanca Campos Borjas). I was born in El Paso, Texas twenty-four years ago. I am the youngest out of four siblings. I come from a household where we only talked in Spanish. I remember we listened to my dad's Corridos, Cumbias, and Nortenas. The only English music we listened to was Oldies. I lived in the Northeast side of town for a while just as I got to the firs...