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Aunt Dora: My Second Mom

By Gloria L. Velásquez/The Johnstown Breeze

When I first began touring as an internationally renowned author and poet in the late 1980s, one of the most frequent questions I was always asked by audiences was, “What poet or author inspired you the most in becoming a writer and poet?” I would smile and instantly answer, “My rebel aunt, my second mom, my Aunt Dora.”

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