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68Torn Jeans - Part 1
The first time I met Tai I was sure he was there to kill me. It was a Saturday afternoon in October, about three-thirty, actually, and I was enjoying a pleasant bubble bath after a long week of school. I...
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77Today my son bit his tongue. HARD.
He was climbing on a kitchen chair - most likely to get onto the table, as he so often does. Somehow, between when I said, “Sam, sit down before you fall,” and when I heard the bang, my 1-year-old lost his footing and fell to the floor. ...
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83Mexican Migrant Workers: Nuisance or Necessity?
Every morning, Luis Arriega wakes before dawn to make the two-and-a-half-hour trek from his small Mexican village to Sinaloa de Leyva, where he works as an auto mechanic. His wife Maria stays home with the children and earns what she can, selling...
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57The Vestibule
All concentration set on nothing empty dark. In a long black corridor, pale neon lights on either side, bare bulbs where walls meet ceiling. There’s a door at the end with glowing beams of...
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65Torn Jeans - Part 4
February 14, Friday. Taiwan Montgomery and I went to the school Valentine's Day dance together. (We had gotten pretty close over the past month or so.) The dance was just like any other dance I had ever been...
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64Honeymoon Hell
Since neither of us had any real ties to one place, and since we both loved a good road trip, we decided to spend our honeymoon in our newly acquired Chevy20 conversion van. After loading it up with copious...
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64Torn Jeans - Part 3
On Friday the twenty-fourth, Tai asked me to go see a movie with him. I said, “Sure. Why not.” I don’t remember what movie we saw, but I do remember that I had a great time. First we went to McDonalds. (I had fries and a Dr. Pepper.) We...
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76Early North American Civilization circa 1500
I am Kai. I come from Diné Bikéyah. My people have lived here for many moons. I, my mother, my mother’s mother, and so on, until very few of the elders will agree on where our ancestors truly came from. The white man says the land is his. But...
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72An Introduction to Life As a Victim of Domestic Violence
“Mommy, what did you do to Chris that time he slammed my head into the wall?” This is the kind of question I get to answer when my six-year-old is having a bad day. “Which time, baby?”
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67Torn Jeans - Part 2
Monday, January 13, 1996, I saw Taiwan Montgomery for the second time. It was in school, believe it or not. I didn’t even know he went to school. As it turned out, he had been suspended for having a penknife on school property. If it had been a...
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