This picture tells an amazing story. Here you see Erica Alfaro and her parents. Earlier this month 29-year-old Alfaro received her Masters degree in education from San Diego State University. Alfaro credits her farm working parents for inspiring her to get a degree. She wanted to honor them with these graduation pictures taken in the fruit fields where her mother still works. Here you can see her standing in her graduation cap and gown with her parents in work clothes in the middle of the field.

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