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Studies, at San Francisco State University. Having been an active organizer in the arts and poetry scene of San Francisco—including making connections between the "Beat" poets of North Beach and the burgeoning Latin American arts scene in San Francisco's Mission District—Vargas became a creative writing lecturer for the La Raza Studies program of the new Ethnic Studies Department.
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and learned to fly small planes through their hourly rental at an aviation facility in San
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