their necks, and white doves flying. When we were watching Fidel on television that day, someone released some doves—there were two or six, I can’t remember—and a pair of them landed on his shoulders as he talked. My aunt stood up and pointed to the television: “Those men are communists!” We all laughed at her. “Ah, come on, what do you know?” My father—her brother—called her a silly old maid. But she insisted. “You don’t know. I saw this before. Communists act like they’re holy people, but watch out,” she said. She and my father argued in Hungarian for a long time. Ofelia Fox: I don’t think
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