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Here, Craig Santos Perez was born and raised until the age of 15. He remembers his homeland fondly but specifically describes the disconnect from family, friends, and culture once moving the mainland.

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Here, Craig Santos Perez attended his first high school in the United States after migrating from Guam. It is in California that Santos Perez felt the first isolating elements of life as an immigrant to America, especially the erasure of his homelands on mainstream maps and in mainstream education.

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Here, Elise Paschen was born and raised. She recalls interacting with her family portraits here, specifically her great-grandmother's survival long past her great-grandfather, as her portraits showed her aging much longer than him. She would leave the city to spend time with her relatives in Fairfax, Oklahoma.

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Here, is Elise Paschen's homeland, where her relatives and ancestors of the Osage Nation called home. Although Paschen was born in Chicago, Illinois, she spent much of her childhood summers in Fairfax, connecting with her family and her heritage, as well as learning firsthand the trauma of her predecessors.

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Today, and for the foreseeable future, I live in Boone, NC. Boone will be the place I grow into my adulthood and adjust to life without my parents. I have loved my time in Boone so far and I am so grateful to be afforded an out-of-state college experience in the High Country! I am excited for all of the memories to come with my time in North Carolina.

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A beautiful Greek Orthodox Church I visited.

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My first time abroad I spent in Athens and Santorini, Greece. I traveled with my grandmother and my older brother as an early graduation gift during the summer of 2022. I am very grateful to be able to travel widely and experience cultures other than my own, and I find that this particular trip was formative to my identity today because it helped me broaden my perspective on cultural and social expectations. Here, I met older Greek citizens and heard of the convoluted economic past of Greece. Since my trip, I believe that I am a more openminded and informed member of the world community and I feel very blessed to have been able to experience a rich social culture other than that of the United States.

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My favorite spot to sit and think, right on the lakes.

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I was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and my identity as a Louisianian continues to shape who I am today. I have six siblings and we were raised in the same house in Baton Rouge since I was born. I became a girl, then a teenager, and then I suppose an adult in Baton Rouge. It's the only place I've ever called home and I'm not sure anywhere else could take its place. I used to disdain Louisiana and I wanted nothing more than to attend college out-of-state, but now that I am here I miss my home, my family, and my partner beyond imagination.