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Los Sures, Part 10: How Do You Say, “Smorgasbord” in Spanish?

Posted on August 26, 2010September 17, 2010| By BylineRNz

We ran back with the camera in her hand and tried to get the giant pig to come closer. “C’mon, Wilbur,” she said to it. But it stayed in a dark corner. Fever said that the pig was boring and left. “Evie,” I said. “Look at this one.” A pig

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Los Sures, Part 9: When I Was Nuyorican

Posted on August 26, 2010September 3, 2010| By BylineRNz

Evie loved pigs. Our father took my sister to see Charlotte’s Web on her 11th birthday. It was the only time he ever took just one of us to the movies. So Evie was really really excited when Mami said we were going to see real live pigs. We were

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Los Sures, Part 8: Nuyorican Go Home

Posted on August 19, 2010September 3, 2010| By BylineRNz

We called my brother Rafael “Fever” because whenever he liked something—like Godzilla or baseball or Bruce Lee—he got a “fever” for it. When we went to Puerto Rico for summer vacation he was dying to play baseball, but the local kids in the ball field down the street from Titi’s

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Los Sures, Part 2: The Apartment on South Second Street

Posted on July 29, 2010August 5, 2010| By BylineRNz

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 there anymore, although he didn’t live with us. My mother’s friend Mojona had bought a building

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