and
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In his school
Lupita seemed to be a girl like
any other had no
problem with his teachers and he liked
do the same as your friends together and
they go to the movies Juan in the plaza listened
music they drew they sang and they danced
all day
so it was growing from the garden of
infants until they arrived at school
primary school was always smiling
lupita but with the passage of time
despite these similarities with their
lupita friends began to realize
that she was different
sport is a part school
parallel education and has been part of
my life from 5 years and since the
first contact was teaching me and
accompanying my family as a girl
move all the time and every time we
we moved was to change the country and
culture and language and of friends and my
brothers and I were very young like
to maintain friendships
international especially
considering that it did not exist yet
internet so whenever we get to
a new place
my parents obviously do not sign up
a school but they also signed up
in a sports club at school we
It cost a lot to interact with the others
guys encourage us to talk in class
understand what the class was saying
but not like that in sports
in sports the language is the rules
of the game and if you can not play and you
You can start unwrapping has
shared moments and start forging
new friendships
the sport was always our best
tool to make friends
later in my adolescence the
sport again helped me overcome
difficult times and this time the way
of bullying
when I was 13 years old
my family moved to the united states of
back to Argentina and I found
a group of guys who knew each other
from 3 years
I was very different it was much more
great that the others
the kids made fun of me because I did not
he spoke almost no Spanish and I
they said machona because I liked to do
sport and play football
they also started to make me feel
the difference that I have my build
median physique the back with a ruler
they told me gorden machona drew in
the blackboard a two-door slope and
entrenched and above or the time of
violence pretty extreme tension to
set fire a shoe and if he had it
put all this because the big one does not
because she was a bad friend or bad partner
just very big is not a
late when the aggressions were
too strong to support
the lupitas came to his house crying
when your mom on the plane
the strong hug asked him what
I had passed
mom why is it so bad to be
different
who said that it is bad little daughter sometimes
it’s complicated to be different but for
nothing bad is sometimes different
Become a person
extraordinary extraordinary and how
could mom achieve that path not
You will have to discover yourself my heaven
The worst thing about bullying is that we started
believe the things they say about us
take our worst insecurity and the
boost
I believed everything they said about me and
for many many years or ten my body
I also think that the most dangerous thing about
that the bullying comes is that it generates
a lot of loneliness and shame and guilt to
today I find it hard to talk about it but
at that time I could not do it
I just suffered it and I survived them
It was the most difficult time of my
life but it was also when I started
makes the hammer throw and there
on the running track
I found a space where the
guys accepted me for everything I am
where my physical frame was my
advantage and my love for the sport was
something to be admired or flattered
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despite highlighting and I started to cure
first he did it through sport is
more many years later it can
do as a woman
they say that what does not kill you strengthens you
but sometimes the things that happen to us
they leave those wounds very marked, not what
we can play alone or in a short time
I will always be grateful to my
parents who instilled in me the importance
of sport from a very young age and
then when he chose a career in the
who supported one hundred percent and if well
the environment is almost as important as
the path that we choose this path has
been challenging and in difficult times
but I would choose it one and a thousand times more
thanks to the sport I learned that nothing
given that what costs the most is what
that it’s better and that the effort and the
Danzoo sacrifice bear fruit
I learned that we are all different that
I can never let myself be defined by another and
that the real big
the book to the other one does not crush it I learned
to love my curves and respect the
woman that I see in the mirror and that never
we do not have to go down the tacos to
that the other feels level of sport
the sport does not leave much more than a
result a win a medal a
trophy does not leave experiences and
opportunities travel friendships and
unforgettable moments
we only have to know how to choose a
I walk next to him thanks to his
phenomenal performance they hung him a
medal in the neck
It was the first he received in his life
he ran back home with his prize
in his hand and came in crying like when
I had returned from school sad
this time the tears were happiness
mom I did exclaimed lupita that exists
my heaven asked his mother while
I hugged him strong too excited
I will become different in
extraordinary and how did my daughter
with a flying hammer and the city my
new friends
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