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2 Sisters On Enjoying Life: Instead Of 'A Drama Or A Novela, Make It A Sitcom'

As kids whose parents worked full time, Corina Ulloa and Brenda Ulloa Martinez spent a lot of time looking after one another in their Los Angeles neighborhood. Corina said it made them who they are.
Brenda Ulloa Martinez (left), then 4, and younger sister Corina Ulloa, 2, are pictured in the living room of their one-bedroom apartment where they lived with their parents.

Sisters Corina Ulloa and Brenda Ulloa Martinez grew up in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Brenda, 46, and Corina, 44, passed on their own childhood memories to Brenda's young daughters, Isabela and Camila, in an interview with StoryCorps in 2010.

Their parents came to the United States from Mexico when they were in their 20s. Irma and Arnulfo Ulloa each worked full-time jobs when their children were young. Before

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