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She is a dual citizen of the United States and Brazil. She is one of four children and a triplet, with two brothers the same age and one older brother. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Brazil in the last years of the country’s military dictatorship which lasted from 1964 to 1985. Cerullo was raised in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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