GRENADA. One word, seven letters. It is one of the most paramount words in my life. It marks the location of the beginning of the journey that I call life. I am an immigrant and the child of immigrants. For the first three years of my journey, Grenada shaped me. For the next fourteen years, I would experience culture shock, finding myself being shaped by the United States. The person that I am today, seventeen years later, is the result...

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