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By Leticia Landa and Caleb Zigas
Published 2019
When I was five, my aunts and uncles came from Jamaica; thirteen people living in the house, it was crazy. Good at the same time. All of the family was here, and we made do. I remember us laughing a lot. Arguments would break out between the older siblings and the aunts and uncles. My older siblings were born here, and the family was born in Jamaica, so there would be cultural clashes. How one keeps things clean. Food. We would fight about food. My mom would always cook. She worked full-tim