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  1. Esmeralda Santiago _ When I Was Puerto Rican

    Plito, chicken Gallina, hen Lápiz, pencil y Pluma, pen. Ventana, window Puerta, door Maestra, teacher y Piso, floor.
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  2. Esmeralda Santiago _ When I Was Puerto Rican

    It seemed too complicated, as if each one of us were really two people, one who was loved and the official one who, I assumed, was not.
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  3. Esmeralda Santiago _ Las Christmas

    n the tropical climates of the Caribbean and the temperate climes of South America, where Christmas falls smack in the middle of summer, there is no Santa arriving on a sleigh, no jingle bells in the snow, no stockings hung on the mantel with care. it's a holiday for family, for grown-ups as well as children, celebrated with plenty of traditional food, drink, music, and dance. Nochebuena, Christmas Eve, is the night for la misa del gullo, "the rooster's mass," which begins at midnight."
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  4. Esmeralda Santiago _ Conquistadora

    She'd worried at the beginning when she first met them that there were too many patrones. But within weeks she was sure that there was really one boss, and that the other three were working for her.
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  5. Esmeralda Santiago _ Las Christmas

    In the Spanish-speaking Americas, Christmas is much more than a one-day event followed by a staggering credit card bill. The festivities last for weeks, beginning well before Christmas, and continuing straight through to the arrival of the Three Kings and the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6. Las Navidades involves a lot more partying and a lot less shopping than a US. Christmas.
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  6. Esmeralda Santiago _ When I Was Puerto Rican

    El bohío de la loma, bajo sus alas de paja, siente el frescor mañanero y abre sus ojos al alba. Vuela el pájara del nido. Brinca el gallo de la rama. A los becerros, aislados de las tetas de las vacas, les corre por el hocico leche de la madrugada. Las mariposas pululan -rubí, zafir, oro, plata...-: flores huérfanas que rondan buscando a las madres ramas...
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  7. Esmeralda Santiago _ When I Was Puerto Rican

    ...and the shortcuts through the woods that led to the next barrio where all sorts of pocavergüenzas took place.
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  8. Esmeralda Santiago _ When I Was Puerto Rican

    We came to Macun when I was four, to a rectangle of rippled metal sheets on stilts hovering in the middle of a circle of red dirt.
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  9. Esmeralda Santiago _ Conquistadora

    Ana had experienced reactions like Ramon's in the mirrored salons of Sevilla society, in the waxed halls of the Convento de las Buenas Madres, on the streets of Cadiz and San Juan. It was a look that said, "I see you, but I deign not to speak to you." It said, "I see you but I do not share the high opinion you have of yourself." It said, "I see you but you're not who I want to see." It said, "To me, you don't exist.
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  10. Esmeralda Santiago _ When I Was Puerto Rican

    There were more fights, more arguments, more yelling in the night, more long absences. Until it seemed as if anything would be better than living with these people who hated each other.
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  11. Esmeralda Santiago _ When I Was Puerto Rican

    I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.
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  12. Esmeralda Santiago _ When I Was Puerto Rican

    Envy, Doña Lola had once said, eats at you from the inside and turns your eyes green when you look at the person of whom you're jealous.
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