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Article: From Puerto Rico con valentia -- with spirit! Esmeralda Santiago's ALMOST A WOMAN on ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre's American Collection Sunday, September 15, 2002 at 8pm ET on PBS pbs.org/masterpiece/americancollection.
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- July 15, 2002
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BOSTON -- In 1961 Esmeralda Santiago moved to New York City from rural Puerto Rico with her mother and six siblings. Her determined struggle from a Brooklyn tenement to the threshold of a successful artistic career comes poignantly to life in Almost a Woman, based on her prize-winning memoir, airing on ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre's American Collection, Sunday, September 15, 2002 at 8pm ET, on PBS (check local listings).
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PBS has scheduled the film an hour earlier than the American Collection's usual slot to allow younger viewers to see its inspiring story of a teenage girl who overcomes ...