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“I feel like every year I have been better and better.”
“We never had anything,” Luna says. “And all my friends, we were all poor. And they would all complain about it and I remember I would never complain about anything.”
One time on her birthday, Star says she made a cake out of mud.
“And everybody was laughing,” she continues. “I was so happy because I was in my little world. And I remember to this day that I got so into my world that I even bite the cake.”
She excelled in swimming as a kid, training twice a day and winning dozens medals and trophies at various swim meets.
“Butterfly used to be the one I was really good at,” Star says. “I used to be No. 1 in butterfly—50 and 100 meters. And freestyle. ... I took my swimming very seriously.”
She arrived in Miami when she was 16, breaking records in the pool during her junior and senior years of high school. But she struggled with her language skills.
“I graduated with like a high GPA but I didn’t speak English,” Luna says. “It took me a long, long time to speak English, I don’t know why. I used to cry every day for like months.”
Undeterred, Star went to college for two years—doing all her homework and always taking on extra-credit assignments to help her grades—but still she had to drop out twice because of her English.
Then she got a job in customer service at a medical center for the elderly.
“And I used to love it. I went all the way to be a manager,” Luna says. “Because I’m very sweet and I would talk to these old people and I used to know all of them and I used to love that.
“So I stayed there until I started the industry. And then I went to a cigar shop and I had that as part time while I was doing the videos. Because you never know how this would turn out.”
Star explains that it was while she worked at the cigar shop that she learned how to speak better English.
“I was a really good salesperson so in three months I sold so much they put me as the manager,” Luna recalls. “I worked seven days a week, 10 hours a day.
“It was really good—they paid me really well. Every single customer, we’d become friends, so they would come and teach me English or bring me food.
“Some of them would laugh [at my English]. I would laugh with them and I would say, ‘Since you know so much, why don’t you teach me?’ And in two years I learned how to speak proper English better than in school. It’s crazy.”
She later became a U.S. citizen, receiving her passport in 2019 and by December of that year she had traveled to six different countries.
“I try to go somewhere new every time,” Luna says. “But my most beautiful place in the whole world is the Maldives. When I’m there I always get with the locals...”
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