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en-wikipedia-org-5367		Julia Alvarez - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4535	537	71	Julia Alvarez was born in 1950 in New York City.[4] When she was three months old, her family moved back to the Dominican Republic, where they lived for the next ten years.[5] She grew up with her extended family in sufficient comfort to enjoy the services of maids.[6] Critic Silvio Sirias believes that Dominicans value a talent for story-telling; Alvarez developed this talent early and was "often called upon to entertain guests".[7] In 1960, the family was forced to flee to the United States after her father participated in a failed plot to overthrow the island's military dictator, Rafael Trujillo,[8] circumstances which would later be revisited in her writing: her novel How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, for example, portrays a family that is forced to leave the Dominican Republic in similar circumstances,[9] and in her poem, "Exile", she describes "the night we fled the country" and calls the experience a "loss much larger than I understood".[10]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5367.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5367.txt