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I was able to catch a few of the Women’s World Cup Games last week, and this weekend when the Women’s U.S. Soccer Team dominated and brought home the championship for the United States. While I watched, they won their fourth World Cup on Sunday. …
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The e-mail I’m looking for comes from one of the animal rescue organizations. Every day they send me a long list of the “urgents,” the dogs that have one more day before it’s all over…
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My name is Francine Rodriguez, and I am an author, but I wasn’t always an author. I grew up in and around the skid row area of downtown Los Angeles.
Read MoreFrancine Rodriguez has written a very compelling novel about one woman’s journey through her largely difficult life. A Woman Like Me follows Genie, a transgender woman, as she tells her troubling life story full of hardships. The story starts with a boy growing up in Thailand and …
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A Woman Like Me is a dark and gritty warrior’s journey of a one-of-a-kind protagonist. This story of a bi-racial, transgender woman, begins with her imprisonment in the Phillippines for murder where she becomes a Muay Thai fighter in the prison circuit and follows her to Bangkok, and then to New Orleans.
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The area around downtown Los Angeles is known for its violence, sexual exploitation, greed, and “empty dreams.” The goal for most is to out-hustle the next guy before he can hustle you.
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