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Gorda has warned me that people are all capable of the same things: murder, hate, betrayal, seduction, love, compassion and much more. I know what people are capable of.
I didn’t call home for months and did not think about my grandparents, my mother or Gorda’s welfare. I just assumed they would be around forever.
At times it was hard for me to remember the me who lived in this house, that hung outside just like Flaca does, waiting for someo...
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I am the kind of person who let my father die and then pretended my father’s death never happened. I let my mother believe it was her who killed him. And now Gorda . . .
Don’t cry, Gorda. You didn’t kill him. Mami and me killed him together.
Manolo, I’m tired of you talking to me like that in front of our daughter. Our daughter? She’s your daughter.
Olivia tried to remember why she stayed with him so long. Was he ever good to her? Or was he only good to her when he got what he wanted?
