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Born in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador, Cecilia Alvear immigrated to the United States in the 1960s and became a U.S. citizen in 1984. She frequently returns to the Galapagos, where she is helping to upgrade the public elementary school first started by her late father, the former military governor of the islands.
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