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When Maria Selene Castillo, 17, feels nervous she fiddles with the pendant at the end of her necklace, a gift from her uncle. Growing up, Castillo says, her uncle always provided the emotional support.
Castillo remembers the phone conversations after he was first deported during her junior year of high school. Her uncle would cry and apologize for leaving her side, she said.
As an undocumented immigrant she wasn't able to leave the country, so Castillo told him she would send back the pendant to her uncle in Mexico. But her uncle refused and said she should return it in person. Through education, he told her, she would be able to see him again.
Etched on Castillo's pendant is an image of St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes. But Castillo is anything but a lost cause.
Read the full article at: Desert Sun
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