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In the Country We Love: My Family Divided

by Diane Guerrero

The star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin presents her personal story of the real plight of undocumented immigrants in this country

Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents and brother were arrested and deported while she was at school. Born in the U.S., Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, without the support system of her family.
In the Country We Love is a moving, heartbreaking story of one woman's extraordinary resilience in the face of the nightmarish struggles of undocumented residents in this country. There are over 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US, many of whom have citizen children, whose lives here are just as precarious, and whose stories haven't been told. Written with Michelle Burford, this memoir is a tale of personal triumph that also casts a much-needed light on the fears that haunt the daily existence of families like the author's and on a system that fails them over and over.

Mother and the garden

Jr got me this pink dogwood for M day.  It has goat protection.

Sunday morning before going to Church, I asked George to get the tiller started for me so I could till the garden when I got back.  By the time I got home, he had tilled the entire garden. It looks so much better now.

The mother of our goat herd is doing fine.

George also moved the old shed out of the goat pen,  It looks so much better now.

I have planted almost 2 rows of tomatoes, sweet peppers,  2 rows of potatoes, some squash, cucumbers, onions, lettuce and radishes.  The tomatoes and peppers are doing great.  The potatoes did not come up good and the lettuce almost not at all.  I probably have only one full row of potatoes from the two rows.  Today it is raining, so it should all take off now.

Today was my lucky day.  I killed a deer on the way work today.  Driving a tank has its advantages.  The only damage was the plastic flap below the bumper was knocked loose.  George came to work and reattached it.  Did not even have to bring the tank home.  Robert and Hannah will loved that I killed a deer.  It was up by the graveyard by  town.  Maybe they saw it this morning on the way  to school.

Only a couple of weeks and school will be out.  We are so excited about our July vacation.