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The Mother
MS became a mother at 14. While watching her father – a former gang member struggling with addiction — fight his way clean, she graduated from high school. With her longtime boyfriend, now husband, she raised three boys far from the violence that shaped her own childhood.
PHOTOS BY JOSEPH RODRÍGUEZ
Alongside Joseph Rodríguez’s photographs, the project includes family snapshots,
school pictures and other private images shared by the people portrayed.
Click on personal photos to magnify and see year and caption.
From MS’s private archive
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