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He’d made his way through life alone and he’d see it through alone, not taking handouts, not trading on an old friendship. Maybe he was just a garden-variety neurotic and no doubt he’d hurt a lot of people to build the business that was now collapsing around him. Still, I had loved so infrequently I felt a debt to those whom I had, for the reprieve from solitude. It was the weight of what I owed that I felt

“Was it hard to become a lawyer?” “You mean, because I’m Mexican? You can’t let what other people think about you stop you from doing what you want to do.”

“Is there no change in paradise?”