My father and mother met while attending high school in Corinto, a port town on the western coast of Nicaragua. After the 1979 Sandinista Revolution, and in the midst of the Contra War that followed, they fled to the United States, where they gave birth to me, my twin brother, and my older sister. Miami-born and raised, I am so proud of them and thankful to them for giving me the opportunity to thrive in a place where anybody can truly be a somebody.