can’t be near Mami no more without her starting with me. She just don’t understand I gots my own troubles. She says I best be getting myself a job this summer or else she gonna send me off to plátano land so I can learn to be more grateful. Could you believe her? Kids over in D.R. are raised to be hard workers, she says.
First note the improper grammar of the English language. Colloquail, limited education in the public school system.
Platano land, typical name for DR
Belief that children behave better in DR
