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Los Sures, Part 2

The Apartment on South Second Street We didn’t always live on South Second Street. We moved there from Rutledge Street, on the other side of the neighborhood. But the Hasidic Jews had moved in, so Papi said we couldn’t live … Continue reading

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Los Sures, Part 1

This begins a highly fictionalized memoir, a sort of A Tree Grows on Mango Street on Rye, if you will. Childhood’s Smell FINALLY, WE DECIDED to go to our father and ask him. He would know. Our mother’s English was … Continue reading

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