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Renteria Doesn’t Blend In

Amanda Renteria’s parents emigrated from central Mexico in the 1960s to work as fruit pickers in California. They settled in the rural town of Woodlake and raised three daughters. When Renteria, the middle child, was accepted to Stanford University and signed on with the elite school’s basketball team, her small high school was so thrilled that an announcement was made over the intercom system.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.
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