I'm Ruben Avilio Mauricio,born and raised in Detroit ( and some of its suburbs). I love being Mexican! I love being Polish ! More importantly, I love the absurd shit that happens when these two cultures mix and meld and .. heat up and .. cool down ... all while trying to live and grow up, and be educated in a pre-Detroit race riots of '67. Crazy shit, man. But real . So real . And I need to feel it and connect with others and share this crazy narrative, this life of mine as it evolves. This is hard work and I'm only just learning how to manage this whole thing, living Brown in a white world.

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My dreams persist, therfore I ponder: writing my first opera, !Respiro!, finding lost relatives in Warsaw,opening my Mexican-Polish bakery in Detroit.