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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 _ 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Esmeralda Santiago _ When I Was Puerto Rican

    I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.
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  10. Esmeralda Santiago _ When I Was Puerto Rican

    What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.
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  11. Esmeralda Santiago _ When I Was Puerto Rican

    For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.
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