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In Alma Villanueva's poem "I Was a Skinny Tomboy Kid," the speaker describes how she acted when she was young, when she wandered around her neighborhood and leaped from roof to roof. She tells how she biked to the ocean dressed as a boy, went fishing, and sold her catches. She didn't want to grow up and be a woman because she associated it with helplessness. At the time, she didn't see the inner strength her mother had. At the end of the poem, she notes that even to this day, she still sometimes wakes up in the tense state of mind she had then.
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