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As a young girl, Oniria Correa never really had a place to call home. She was born in Cuba and adopted by a local family, who left her in the care of a Catholic boarding school after they moved to Puerto Rico.

While her schoolmates went home to their families over the summer, she was left to assist the nuns with chores.

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