... with, but for Julia Alvarez and her three sisters coming to a new country and actually fitting in proved to be a much harder task. After watching the Miss America beauty pageant on television with their father every year, Julia and her sisters longed to be like the American girls in the pageant. The sisters all wanted to fit in but with their short, frizzy hair and ... hair, blue eyes, leggy figures and the peaches and cream skin. Not only did the sisters long to achieve the looks of the American girls but they wanted the freedom of choice as well. They were born into a culture that gro...

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