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I've been to Cuba many times.

I have not been to Cuba, though if you count the stories my grandma told me growing up, I've been there in my head many times. I think someday I will see it, when things are different there, but I've come to feel like I really am a Miami girl.

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

I've been going to Cuba since the Elian Gonzalez affair.

Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

Thousands of people perish in the Straits of Florida every year. We understand it within the context of the Cuban reality.

I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.

I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan.