Student Monserrat Escobar, 17, recites her poem regarding immigration at the Martin Luther King Academic Magnet High School in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. She is a finalist for this year’s Youth Poet Laureate competition. (Photo: Lacy Atkins/The Tennessean)The day Monserrat Escobar Arteaga walked through the Boston airport, she changed.
Shy and soft-spoken, Arteaga always considered herself an introvert. She was sheltered. Used to going unnoticed.
Yet on the day the teen traveled to Germany for a once-in-a-lifetime student exchange trip, she was seen in a way she never hoped to be.
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