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The lady lawyer from San Antonio

Introducing Ofelia Delgado, graduate of St. Mary's University in San Antonio.  Here she is telling me she gets the bar results in November!  Pray and shout for her! Im gonna pray to la santa de abogadas...Ofelia's been desperate for work and now has a part-time job, and has dreams, big ones   She used to work on behalf of women at the Peace Initiative.  Of course she owes money everywhere after three years of law school.  A woman like this, who cares so much, who speaks fluent Spanish, is worth a zillion bucks with this smile, verdad?

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Ofelia said…
Mil gracias for believing in me, Barbara! It means so much at this juncture in my life. Just a small correction, I graduated from Loyola New Orleans...que viva la gente buena de Nawlins!
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Ofelia said…
Mil gracias for believing in me, Barbara! It means so much at this juncture in my life. Just a small correction, I graduated from Loyola New Orleans...que viva la gente buena de Nawlins! Y por supuesto, San Anto!
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