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" I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang. "
Ruben Blades
Remember
Singing
She
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" So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime. "
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