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Marilyn Gonzalez Colon Realizes Childhood Dream of Serving Her Country

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LatinaLista — Marilyn Gonzalez Colon is a fighter. She fought her way back from being a teen mom and high school dropout to getting her GED at age 25 and graduating from college with an Associates Degree in Liberal Arts from Boricua College.
 
This New York Puerto Rican Latina also fought to recapture a childhood dream she thought was gone forever after having five children. Instead of giving up on her dream, she blazed a trail in her family when she enlisted in the Army National Guard.

http://latinalista.com/2012/07/marilyn/

 

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