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People of El Camino: Fred Lopez

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By Selvin Rodas • April 27, 2016

“If there’s something I could change about my life, it would it be around 13 or 14 years old when basically I started hanging around with the bad people so they dictated my life the next 6 years. That would be the first thing I would change because my life would be different, but now I got a house and a family.”

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