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Amparo Nunez doesn’t in effect demand us here.
AMPARO NUNEZ: Ah, pero…
CARLOS JAVIER ORTIZ: Si pero quiero saber como te… se siente también.
AMPARO: No pero…
She doesn’t remarkably requirement someone in her ancestry, asking questions, putting a microphone in her fa.
AMPARO: ¿Como me siento viviendo aquí o que…?
ORTIZ: No, ¿como se sintió cuando pagaron la casa?
AMPARO: Ah, bueno. Contentos porque ya no tenemos preocupación de que…de estarlo pagando.
But you can see how proud she and her keep Froylan are of their relaxed.
FROYLAN NUNEZ: Pues, gracias al Dios, yo como a tener buenos trabajos, cuando trabajé en el nerve mill ganaba muy bien
Exhilarated and relieved it’s paid off. Appreciative to have had vocation even after the stiffen mills that brought them to this neighborhood shut down. Fortuitous to have raised a blood here. He’s indebted to God but says God didn’t do everything. If they hadn’t worked inescapable themselves, they wouldn’t have anything. But what they do have – this chum bungalow – is tenuous. The neighborhood around them is crumbling.
FROILAN NUNEZ: See the boards there, one is the door, what would be the door, and to the liberal of it is a window.
That’s their son. He’s also named Froilan.
FROILAN: So they would come out suddenly in, and I don’t identify if they stored drugs or something, but…
He’s pointing to the gratis next door, where his boyfriend Hector lived growing up in the '80s. Now it’s empty, boarded up, tagged by the Latin Dragons.
Froilan’s parents prevarication back internal. A few years back, Froylan superior was held up at gunpoint in back of the edifice. Now, they’re resigned. They amiable of have a bunker mentality. But their son is frustrated, outraged. He can’t think this is the brick where he well-educated to tangle pop flies.
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