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How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame from a national…
1 While I was cleaning my apartment recently, I picked my grandfather’s accordion up and played it…
Hi, Folks, Some of your will recall the long series I posted awhile back about a young…
John Edwards at a podium in the Ninth Ward on January 30, 2008:
I began my presidential campaign [in New Orleans] to remind the country that we, as citizens and as a government, have a moral responsibility to each other, and what we do together matters. We must do better, if we want to live up to the great promise of this country that we all love so much.
I went to bed last Thursday night a citizen of Chicago’s 46th Ward. I rose the next…
What: A “Special Collector’s Edition” magazine called Oliver North: Portrait of an American Hero.
Where: Purchased in 1987 for $3.50 at an Eagle supermarket in northern Illinois.
Why?: Yes, it’s true, almost half of all Americans at one time were hot for Ollie North.
Huh?: You didn’t answer the question: Why?: I bought it to prove that I’d seen it. I recently dug it out of a box I had in storage and …
Mojada, Part IV
Reuniting with Dad
After staying with my grandparents for a month in Santa Ana California we flew to Chicago in April to be with our dad. We arrived at O’Hare airport and when we saw Dad, we were simply ecstatic. I thought. “We are finally here with dad.” It is not an easy transition for someone when they first move from one place to another. Imagine how you have felt when you have moved from one house to another or from living at home to living in a dorm. It’s strange. You are entering a complete new world, new culture, new customs, new everything. My dad had rented an apartment for us to live in. He used to live with my uncle and two other men in a different apartment, but when he found out we were coming he made arrangements so that we could have our own place. It was barely furnished and I remember we had to use buckets as chair whenever we ate and our dining table was also the center table in the living room. We definitely did not have much but through my dad’s hard work and support from my grandmother our almost empty apartment began to look like home. Then again I think that us being together was sufficient to call it home.
Hi, folks,
Here is part II of Angie Sánchez’s “Coming to America Story.” (Here is part I.)
Enjoy,
Gabacho
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