Finding home: a grad says goodbye to Boyle Heights

Ericka Oropeza will gain independence when she starts college at UC Riverside this fall.  Her parents and siblings are also moving far away from Boyle Heights, the place she's always called home. Vacations and holidays will be split between visiting friends and other relatives in the old neighborhood and her immediate family in their new home in Texas.  A new college student rethinks where home and the heart is, on Boyle Heights Beat.

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