“I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody sees.”
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“Marin, under the streetlight, dancing by herself, is singing the same song somewhere. I know. Is waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life.”
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“I have inherited her name but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window.”
-The house on Mango Street”
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-The house on Mango Street”
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“I wonder if she made the best with what she got or was she sorry because she couldn’t be all the things she wanted to be. Esperanza. I have inherited her name, but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window.”
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“At school they say my name funny as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth. But in Spanish my name is made out of a softer something, like silver”
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