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Leaving Glorytown

Eduardo F. Calcines

Reading Level-Grade 11 History Reading Level-Grade 6

When Eduardo Calcines was three years old, Communists took control of Cuba. Eleven years passed before Calcines and his family were finally able to leave the country. Now sixty-three, Calcines, a successful American businessman, recounts what it was like to grow up under Fidel Castro's rule.