Maria CarrilloDeputy Editor, Enterprise
I grew up speaking Spanish at home, thanks to my Cuban parents, and my kindergarten teacher at Pixieland once complained to my mom about my poor English. I caught up quickly, though. Became a journalist because I love words and couldn’t believe someone would pay me to string them together. Now I get paid to edit stories that usually take a lot of time and effort. Mostly, they run on Sundays. I moved to St. Pete from Houston and to Texas from Norfolk, Va. Apparently, I’m drawn to swampland and places that attract hurricanes.
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![Copy of a photo of Ruben Bell Jr. in 1967 from a Marine yearbook of Bell's Paris Island boot camp class. Another member of the class read about there not being a good photo of Bell for the Vietnam Veterans Fund folks who are collecting pictures of soldiers killed in Vietnam.](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 16 9"/%3E "Copy of a photo of Ruben Bell Jr. in 1967 from a Marine yearbook of Bell's Paris Island boot camp class. Another member of the class read about there not being a good photo of Bell for the Vietnam Veterans Fund folks who are collecting pictures of soldiers killed in Vietnam.")