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Crossings, The Dream of the Rich North - Marisol, 16, prepares to visit her (then) boyfriend. This section of her room is especially important to her as it represents order. She designated the area off limits' to everyone. Marisol has begun isolating…

Crossings, The Dream of the Rich North - Eloisa, 11, watches her street pass by as her family is forced to move yet again after being evicted from their house of six years. For them, the house had provided the only stability they knew. For their…

Crossings, The Dream of the Rich North - Eloisa filters through receipts for $30,000 of house payments paid to Victor Castillo. Through an informal written 'rent to own' agreement, Castillo 'sold' this house to Eloisa and Vinicio in 1998. When…

Crossings, The Dream of the Rich North - Visibly worried, Sandra (L) and her mother, Eloisa, 47 (R) wait during a recess in Sandra's child permanency' hearing. For more than a year, lawyers and case workers from the Texas Child Protection Service…

Crossings, The Dream of the Rich North - Eloisa, 10 (L) and Cynthtia, 7, greet their father, Vinicio, 52,on the edge of their yard. Several years after divorcing Vinicio, Eloisa remains reluctant to let her ex-husband see the children. As a result,…

Crossings, The Dream of the Rich North - Mayra Argandoña (L), Juan Izaguirre(M), and Marisol (R) ride in the back of a limousine on the way to Mayra's quinceanera celebration. Marisol had always wanted to have her own quinceañera, but her…

Crossings, The Dream of the Rich North - Surrounded by friends, Marisol (M) anticipates the outcome of her makeover. In 2003, Marisol's best friend, Mayra Argondoña invited six girls to participate asdamas' in her quinceañera (15th birthday…

Crossings, The Dream of the Rich North - Sandra's son, Fernando, 6, receives a meager portion of rice, beans and tortilla while his younger brother, Marco Antonio, 2, crawls in the kitchen. In November 2003, Texas Child Protective Service seized…

Crossings, The Dream of the Rich North - Sandra cooks for her three children inside the dilapidated home where she and her father, Vinicio live with Sandra's three children. Vinicio and Eloisa ended their relationship in bitter divorce in 2000,…

Crossings, The Dream of the Rich North - Sandra, 25 (L), drives down Cleburne's main street on the way home from grocery shopping with her child, Marco Antonio Velasquez Rodriguez, 1. After Hugo left Sandra in 1999, Sandra met Marcelino Velasquez,…