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Leticia Velasquez

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Leticia Velasquez is a wife and mother to three girls. Christina, her youngest, has Down syndrome. She is the co-founder of Keep Infants with Down Syndrome (KIDS). Leticia blogs about daily life with Christina at Cause of Our Joy, and Causa Nostrae Laetitae is her Culture of Life blog. She reviews books and films at Catholic Media Review. Her articles have been published in Canticle, Faith and Family, and Celebrate Life magazines, and the National Catholic Register. You can find her work online at Catholic.net, Catholic Exchange, and Catholic Online. The Velasquez family lives in rural Connecticut.

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