Cielo Lutino, Author at Salvation South

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A young girl watches football in the 1980s on television, finding a path to belonging. Football becomes a shared language with her father, and the forge their own American Identity through Sports. Father Daughter Football. Immigrant Experience Football.

Three Yards and a Cloud of Dust

The language of football offers an immigrant girl growing up in South Carolina a way to connect with her father—and the USA.

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