YOWZA! What a read!
How come they all start out in Santa Monica?
Pedro Castorena and Manuel Leija-Sanchez operated out of a Chinese laundry in Chicago, where hundreds of documents were sold every day, Suad said. The men, along with other family members, would count the earnings daily.
"One thousand, two thousand and sometimes five thousand dollars,'' she said.
Suad recalled how her family went from poverty to riches in only a few years.
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Do they have Chinese laundries in Santa Monica? 8-o lol