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5:50 pm
Fri June 29, 2012

Off the Clock: Faith and Fiestas in Mexico, MO.

Credit Lydia Mulvaney and Andrew Schriver / KBIA/Columbia Missourian
For Mexico teen Monica Martinez, life is a balance between faith, family and her own dreams.

On this edition of Off the Clock, we visit Monica Martinez, a teen whose Latin American family is putting down roots in Mexico, Missouri.

KBIA and the Columbia Missourian have been working with rural teens all over Missouri to get their stories about … being a teen, in rural Missouri. Called “My Life My Town,” the project worked with teens to create multimedia portraits about their lives – some of the teens where a pink triangle, some of them camouflage or a tiara. Over the next few weeks, we’ll hear the audio versions of these portraits on “Off the Clock."

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