couldn’t help thinking, Oh, Crutch, you were so right. We shouldn’t have moved to Long Island
The narrator expresses regret and addresses someone named Crutch, acknowledging Crutch's wisdom in suggesting that moving to Long Island was a mistake.
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“Man, turkey, what you doin’?” I said. “You drying that piss and I gotta wipe my face with that towel.”
i would've lost my mind. I take my skin care seriously.
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“Chri-sus sake,” he said, “‘you made me piss all over my pants.”
Jose, once relieved, expresses frustration at the protagonist, claiming that their delay in opening the door has caused him to urinate in his pants.
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She had told God, "I'm not ready,” and it was because of me. Because had she died at 20, | would have become the mother of all these other children. She felt that she couldn't do that to me.
The mother didnt want her oldest daughter to continue putting her plans aside to help her family. She didn't want to die because she does'nt want to add more weight into her daughter shoulder since she would have to become the mother of her siblings. Which speaks a lot about how big was the love that mother had for her daughter
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Amor de lejos, amor de pendejos?
"long distance relations are for fools" basically what she means is that long distance relationship tent to cheat on each other more, and also they tent to lose interest and feelings faster than other regular relationships
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She walked in and saw the cat and fell in love with the cat, and later with me, | hope.
she had a girlfriend before she married her husband. Bisexual? was the LGTB community known during those days?
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I've been forced to think about a life that's going to look maybe different as | get older than what | thought it was going to look like.
She's mentally preparing herself for the worst case scenario.
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burned some incense, both for my brother's soul, and also for the man who killed him, the sniper.
forgive. she does not hold any grudge, speaks a lot about herself.
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"When ! get back, I'm going to enroll and go to university."
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when the Army green Volkswagen drove up, and my mother knew immediately what had happened.
every military parent worst nightmare. One of the things my mom wouldnt agree with me doing is joining the military (unless is mandatory) because she is affraid of what could happend to me.
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It's a way that we grew up on the border
based on this first sentence i believe the story will be about a person who migrated to a different country.
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| chose to quit my education and go to work. | chose to get that education. It was a sacrifice. It was not easy.
life of a college student .
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At that point, most of my friends from high school, they had gone on to college, were coming back 20, 21, 22 with degrees and teaching, having jobs. | was still at the office going to night school until the University from South Texas opened the branch in Laredo in 1970. | was able to go ahead and finish my degree.
Everybody timing and situations is different, never give up on your dreams because it is never too late to accomplish your dreams and goals in life.
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| think | became a feminist working there, because | saw the inequality and the way women were treated, https:/Awww.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/deathsexmoney/episodes/norma-elia-cantu-death-sex-money 6/18
Strong women who fights for the respect she deserves. leader!
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where | worked for seven years and continued going to night school.
Passionate, discipline and dedicate to succeed.
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It was a rotary club scholarship, and it was for $144 in 1965.
the value of money is decreasing or are we selfish and greedy? Back in 1965, $144 dollars was a lot of money. Now in 2023, you go to the grocery school with that amount and will only bring 5 items home.
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t was incredible. Because | really wanted to go to college, but the counselor was pretty much dead set against it.
Why would a school counselor try to convince a student to not proceed her dreams and gain higher education?
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No one, absolutely not. | didn't know any. | didn't know what a PhD was, | didn't know any of that.
it is very common to see this type of comments on first generation to go to college.
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| was allowed to wear heels, and | was allowed to wear makeup, shaves..
I relate to this because i was also not allow to do none of those things, but once i turned 15 my parents were more open to letting me try new things. I remember i had my first make up palette and foundation at the age of 15.
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All of the rest of us were in the other bedroom with my grandmother. My brother usually slept in the living room on the sofa.
This happens a lot here in New York City, especially with immigrant people. I remember when i first moved here, i stay in a 2 bedroom appartment with 9 other family members for about 5 months.
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The funny thing ts, and you hear people say this all the time, but it's true, | never knew we were poor. | just thought that's how everybody was.
agree, growing up i was fortune to have a bed and food everyday. I didnt appreciate it until i started to realize that there were people who didnt have anything to eat or even a home.
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you are there en that beautiful isle. You were oe there. You have been there all your life. You now have what : imental ost people here can only dream about.
he is telling his grandmother to be more appreciative of what she has , even though she wants to be with her family it would be easier for and better for her to stay in Puerto Rico
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The boasted “American way of life has taken out of us the best of our energies to reach that dream.
America is exhausting. -totally agree, there's never a break
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despondent,
feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression.
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Why don’t you talk United States?” Or even threaten you with a beating because you are speaking Spanish.
Discrimination in The United STates. -Eventhough the united states does not have a official language people tend to get super offended when you speak any other languagues other than English and some times youll end up with a terrible experience. -In my case, i had 2 coworkers one colombian the other is "American" who felt offended because i spoke spanish to my Colombian coworker (who doesnt speak much English) like how can you get offended because im trying to help someone understand their task?
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At the beginning snow is a novelty. But after you have seen it once or twice, you wish you were back in our Puerto Rico, looking out at your avocado tree and at the tall dignified royal palm piercing the deep blue Caribbean sky with its sheer beauty.
he is describing Homesickness - i also relate to this because there are days i stay home and i just miss the warm tropical smell of my beatiful island
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But at vour age you will not really be able to enjoy them.
His is afraid of his Grandma having to deal with depression i would say since it is very common in elderly new yorkers who left their country of origin and could't adapt to the new york life style because of physical disabilities that maybe dont allow them to do certain mandatory activities such as going out to get food during a snow storm.
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All the fun and joy of life extracted from us by the hurry-up machine way of living we are forced to live here.
i totally agree, Us New yorkers live a routine everyday. Our life have a schedule we must follow in order to afford living in this expensive city
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willing and able to go down five flights of stairs two or three times a day.
- Difficult life style for a grandma -i believe the grandma is very old therefore wont be able to survive going up the stairs without complaining of pain or fatigue later one
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I know you are not well-to-do. But you have been living on what your sons and daughters send you every month from the states
-economically dependent makes me wonder if shes really old or maybe sick?
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I know they have sent you the airplane ticket, and a dress just your size with black and white squares i: over the beautiful taffeta silk. But please, grandma, don’t come
as perfect and beautiful as it sounds, that is now the case,. - warning the grandma about something ?
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