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Book Nook: Become the Fire

Motherhood Moments

The daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and Yugoslavian immigrant father, Schmitz knows what it means to be an “outsider.” Whether because of their ethnicity, religion, health challenges, sexual preference, socioeconomic status, lack of connections, lack of direction, or something else — in one way or another, they are outsiders.