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Sandra Cisneros - The House on Mango Street (1984)

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Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in

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I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate

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I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.

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The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

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Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything is waiting to explode like Christmas. I want to be all new and shiny. I want to sit out bad at night, a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt. Not this way, every evening talking to the trees, leaning out my window, imagining what I can't see.

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Born: December 20, 1954 (age 70)
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