As a child, Dr. Abbey Lara helped her family pick cotton. She then became the first in her family to go to college. Family — and Lara`s patients — motivate this caring provider every day.
Abbey Lara still remembers picking cotton as a child and feeling the scratchy plants poking her legs as she stuffed them in a burlap sack.
Her grandmother, Abigail, for whom she was named, lived on a plantation near Mexicali in northern Mexico. Mama Gai, as they called her (short for Mama Abigail) paid her rent by tending fields of cotton and wheat. When Abbey, her sister and their parents went to visit, they worked too.
“Child labor? Sure. That’s what Mexican families do when they’re poor,” said Lara...
Her grandmother, Abigail, for whom she was named, lived on a plantation near Mexicali in northern Mexico. Mama Gai, as they called her (short for Mama Abigail) paid her rent by tending fields of cotton and wheat. When Abbey, her sister and their parents went to visit, they worked too.
“Child labor? Sure. That’s what Mexican families do when they’re poor,” said Lara...
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