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The Grandma is literally a piece of crap...

You know you're procrastinating when you do a deep dive about the history of dry shampoo...

Made it to part three!

"It is said that the young Fidel was so in love with Gladys’s youngest child, Gladys the younger, he would beg her mother to be allowed to watch her sleep. Just that. So in the family’s good graces and confidence was he, he
was allowed this tender privilege. All without Gladys the younger ever knowing this until years later."


EXCUSE ME?????

Gang, the F word was said 11 times in a single chapter. I would stop this book IMMEDIATELY if I didn't HAVE to read it for school...

"Mexican delicacies dubbed Fatties, Harlequins, Queens, Joys, Alleluias, Glories, and those sublime meringue drops named Farts of a Nun."

Could someone tell me if these are the actual names of Mexican sweets?

"All women have a bit of the witch in them. Sometimes they use
it for ill, and sometimes they use it for good."


I'm a witch apparently?

"How is it my grandmother knew to know? How is it a woman
knows what she knows without knowing it, I mean."


I just had a stroke trying to understand that.... (Also, sorry for so many updates, but I'm using this to keep track of where I am in the PDF.)

"One cradled in her arms her recently dead infant dressed as
an angel wearing a crumpled paper crown."

EXCUSE ME????

*Cues Up Say No to This in my ear buds*