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In my residency class, there were four of us. Me - a whitebread, midwestern, naive sumbitch who had never been off the farm. Rob - an African American from Arkansas who had gone to Meharry. AJ - an East Coast gay man who lived under the radar with his partner (we were in the Air Force). And Carl - a Guatemalan who was in his second career, having been a GP in the back areas of Guatemala. I learned so much about other cultures, both US and Central American in those years that I continue to treasure to this day.