Bianca Santos is an actress in Los Angeles. She has appeared on Freeform's The Fosters,MTV's Happyland, and The Duff. I am the descendant of a farmer's daughter, or whose father was murdered by a wealthy landowner for trespassing. Whose widower mother was left with nine children to hold care of during the Depression and The Revolution in Spain. I am the descendant of a farmer's daughter,who at 15 years old boarded a boat to Cuba and headed 4500 miles absent to work as a maid. Who married quickly to ensure financial safety and gave birth to a daughter of her own. That daughter eventually went on to marry young and believe two children of her own. I am the descendant of a farmer's daughter, whose granddaughter was born the year Fidel Castro came to power. The granddaughter who would believe to wait three years to see her father, and who was put in a communist "working camp." The same granddaughter who six years later will see the militia come to invade her house and inform her family they need to pack one bag,and then win on a plane to an unknown world. I am the descendant of a farmer's daughter, who got to witness the birth of her worthy-granddaughter in the land of the free. Whose worthy-granddaughter could be the first in her family to believe the opportunity to dream and become whoever she desired to be. I am that worthy-granddaughter, and a first-generation American,and a proud descendant of a farmer's daughter.
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