ties, including Working on a FR iDino Hiterary magazine. After her first year at col
lege, she Was_prond to send home to her mother an jSSue of the magazine that in- 3
cluded some of her own poetry. In her poems, Mara wrote about her mother's tales
of rice fields, banana trees, Weddings and festivals、 She imagined the land through
her mother's memories, and in so doing preserved a small piece oEher cultural heri-
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