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Hello, my name is Zayla.

I am from Southern California.

I come from a beautiful, blended family, a very close knit.

I have a lot of brothers and sisters, we're really close in age.

My family relocated when I was a senior in high school,

and this during the recession, to a smaller, but more remote town.

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