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Born in the south of Mexico, she was raised in rebel Zapatista autonomous municipalities to later settle down in San Cristobal de las Casas where she cofounded ''La Casa de las Flores'', a non-profit dedicated to educate, feed and care for the marginalized children living on extreme poverty in the streets of her city. After graduating from Nursing school she enrolled in Biotechnology and Astrophysics.
Essays are wonderful. They inspire, entertain, educate and inform through the very unique experience of the writer, who leads the movement from idea to idea the same way an orchestra director guides the notes through beat to beat. Regardless of whether the reading feels fluid and easy or hard and tedious, the essay is always intimate, as if having a face-to-face conversation. In my case, I can’t ever get enough.
These are the best essays of 2017 according to different writers and editors from the journalism site Longreads. Nine of the best works of the year, everything from terrorism to pets to prison to gender. Along with a short description and a link to the actual site where you can read them. This list is a treasure.
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