Victor Villaseñor - Burro genius (2004)

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The truth was that we still spoke Spanish every chance we got. And why, because, simply, it felt good to hear in the sound of the language with which our mothers had rocked us to sleep when we'd been little.

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My dad, he didn't even have the eyes to see me after all of his tall, blue-eyed sons were dead. He started bellowing from the hilltop to hilltop like a madman, saying that God had forsaken him, and he had nothing more to live for, because all his sons were gone! Tears streamed down my dad's face. I was about nine or ten, the same ag

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Promise me, he said, that you'll say nothing, and if something happens to me, you'll always honor our parents. I swallowed. He was scaring me. Look, he continued, I've met a lot of rich kids and their parents at the Academy, and I'll tell you, there are no parents that I'm prouder to have as my father and mother than ours. They rose up with nothing, Mundo, except guts and faith and love. Do you understand? I shook my head. No, I don't, I said. He licked his lips. He seemed to be licking his lips all the time now. You will, he said. You just pay close attention, and you will.

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I nodded. This was something that I really liked a lot about my mother and father. They were always thinking ahead so we didn't make the same mistake twice.

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Mundo, you start paying closer attention to our mama and papa. They didn't get this far in life because their eyes are closed. I nodded. I'd never had a conversation like this before with my brother Joseph

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