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Eddie's family emigrated from Cuba after leaving the country in search of opportunity.—
Jamal Goss,
CBS News,
8 May 2026 -
Grandma Bobby is well-read and well-traveled, glamorous and opinionated (speaking of usually-right old women), the old-school, no-nonsense daughter of a girl who walked out of a pogrom and emigrated to New York.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 May 2026
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Scott Gordon, chief of water enforcement for EPA’s regional office at the time, toured the site in 2000 and said he was shocked by how the industrial water found its path into the river, sometimes through gullies cut by the flow.—
DYLAN JACKSON,
ABC News,
6 May 2026
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City Council Speaker Julie Menin toured the area after the incident.—
Alexa Herrera,
CBS News,
6 May 2026
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The group journeyed to a gothic mansion in La Jolla and dressed as Marie Antoinette in extravagant rococo dresses.—
Maddie Connors,
Los Angeles Times,
4 May 2026
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But he’s journeyed to Lourdes and Our Lady of Guadalupe, both of which the Vatican has officially recognized as supernatural Marian apparitions.—
Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Defected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defected. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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