Tragedy leads to career in nursing

For The Madera Tribune

Yulissa Gonzalez-Apolonio.

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When Yulissa Gonzalez-Apolonio came to the United States from Mexico in the second grade, she didn’t know English, or Spanish. She knew only Mixteco.

She overcame those difficulties, but life threw her a curveball that changed the trajectory of her life. 

In 2017, when Gonzalez-Apolonio was in elementary school, her father passed away.