"My mother was a brilliant, five-foot-tall brown woman with an accent. And as the eldest child, I saw how the world would sometimes treat her - but my mother never lost her cool."
"My father would say, as he smiled, '... Don't let anything stop you.'"
"My mother was 19 when she crossed the world alone, traveling from India to California with an unshakable dream, to cure breast cancer."
The convention featured many speakers who highlighted their blended families or diverse heritage, empowered by her campaign not to shy away from the complexities of their identities.
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