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526: Is That What I Look Like? (2014)
Act One

Blunt Force

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Writer Domingo Martinez tells a story from his memoir The Boy Kings of Texas, about when he was forced to face how he might look in 20 years, if he kept doing what he was doing. (12 minutes)

By

Domingo Martinez

Song:

“Wrong Crowd” by Prince George

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