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Please welcome Juliane Castro.

Welcome to the show. Good to be with you.

This is so strange because we had your twin brother on the show.

And so I feel like I met you on the show,

but I haven't met you on the show.

Did he use his standard line that I'm a minute uglier than he is?

Is that what he says?

This is an interesting time for you to be here,

for you to be coming out with this book,

for you to be, I guess, involved in politics in any way, shape or form.

Let's start at the beginning because that's where the book starts

from waking up from my American dream.

What does that mean to you? Why that title?

Well, to me, it means that in each generation in my family,

starting with my grandmother who came in 1922 from Mexico,

it's an orphan.

We found out that it's not enough in America to just work hard

and for your family to work hard,

that you also needed to work to improve society.

My mother became a Mexican-American civil rights activist.

She ran for city council in San Antonio when she was 23,

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