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Cuban Freedom Flights

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In a new documentary on the Cuban exile experience, a poet weighs how her life and identity were shaped by the hand of a single man.

Amid her ruminations, she considers the what-if absence of Fidel Castro's rise to power 50 years ago.

''The revolution changed my life,'' Sandra Castillo says. ``Had there been no Fidel, would there be a me, the me that I am?''

Castillo's question is one of many in My Suitcase Full of Hope: The Story of the Cuban Freedom Flights that aims to illuminate the heartache and loss among exiles -- the Castro-christened ''anti-revolutionaries'' -- who fled the island to Miami between 1965 and 1973 aboard what came to be known as ``the Freedom Flights,''

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