Brown is Beautiful

East Side Rose by Gregory Mena

Feb 22, 201800:11:35Arts

Monserrat G. Aguilar, a transfer student from East Los Angeles College (ELAC) to UC Santa Cruz, shares a poem titled "The Perfect Woman". Aguilar is an undocumented scholar majoring in Literature. She fell in love with r...

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