“A white lady. It was so fucking weird, Lou. Spanish people, you know, it’s like we’re very, very emotional. I don’t care if that sounds racist because it’s true. When we lost Ruthy, you could hear all of us wailing at once on top of each other inside the room. A white family, when somebody dies, they all start talking about money. I was running over to the room, and I bumped into one of the woman’s daughters, all business, arguing about who was going to pay for what.” Lou said, “Why you always gotta be so mean to white people for? Leave us alone. You’re just as white as me.” Which for the
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