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“Oh, girl! Where you have made it, many men have failed.”
This is the quote that moved me to write a story about migrant girls like Milexi, 16, who dressed as a man and traveled alone across Central America to request asylum in the US. Writing about minors requires continual awareness and thought about consent. I wrote about how Mexican photographer Jac…