What is it like to immigrate from Mexico, raise ten kids, and become an 82 year-old shopkeeper?
When we sat on the floor of his roadside antique store in Santa Anna, TX, Francisco told us.

What is it like to immigrate from Mexico, raise ten kids, and become an 82 year-old shopkeeper? When we sat on the floor of his roadside antique store in Santa Anna, TX, Francisco told us.

What is it like to immigrate from Mexico, raise ten kids, and become an 82 year-old shopkeeper?
When we sat on the floor of his roadside antique store in Santa Anna, TX, Francisco told us.&nbsp;

#17 Immigrant: "Don't forget where you come from."

What do you want in life?

Not what your parents, friends, society, or even a less authentic version of yourself thinks you want -- what do YOU truly want, and why do you want it?

This is the burning question that we, Stephanie Tonneson and Rachel Cyr, want to ask everyone we meet. And each time we do, we usually find that -- if we dig deep enough -- most of us all want the same things.

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What do you want in life? Not what your parents, friends, society, or even a less authentic version of yourself thinks you want -- what do YOU truly want, and why do you want it? This is the burning question that we, Stephanie Tonneson and Rachel Cyr, want to ask everyone we meet. And each time we do, we usually find that -- if we dig deep enough -- most of us all want the same things.

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#17 Immigrant: "Don't forget where you come from."

#17 Immigrant: "Don't forget where you come from."