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"Skinny and spotted with satin scars where scabs were picked, but legs, all our own, good to look at, and long.

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"I am going to hell, and I deserve to do so"

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I want to be
like the waves on the sea,
like the clouds in the wind,
but I'm me.

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"That's very good, she said in her tired voice. You just remember to keep writing, Esperanza. You must keep writing. It will keep you free, and I said yes, but at that time I didn't know what she meant.

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Dear Sister Superior,
Please let Esperanza eat in the lunchroom because she lives to far away and she gets tired. As you can see, she is very skinny. I hope to God that she doesn't faint.
Thanking you,
Mrs. E. Cordero

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"When lunchtime came, I was scared to eat alone in the company lunchroom with all those men and ladies looking, so I ate real fast standing in one of the washroom stalls."

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"I held the book up to her face. I can't see it she said, I'm blind. And then I was ashamed.

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"But I like them. Their clothes are crooked and old"

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I don"t remember when i first noticed him looking at me- Sire. But i knew he was looking. Every time. All the time i walked past his house... They didn't scare me. They did, but i wouldn't let them know. I don't cross the street like other girls. Straight ahead, straight eyes. i walked past. i knew he was looking. i had to prove to me i wasn't scared of nobodies eyes, not even his.

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But most important, hips are scientific, I say repeating what Alicia already told me. It's the bones that let you know which skeleton was a man's when it was a man and which a woman's.

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"Most likely I am  going to hell and most likely I deserve to be there."

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"..her legs bunched under the yellow sheets,the bones gone limp as worms."

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But I think diseases have no eyes.

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I love the Simpsons

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She thought she'd go to hell for being born on an "evil day

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"I had even gone to the social security office to get my social security number. I needed money."

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"Most likely I will go to hell and most likely I deserve to be there.

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"In the canteen, which was nothing special, lots of boys and girls watched while I cried and ate my sandwich."

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And then she died, my aunt who listened to my poems.
And then we began to dream the dreams

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"Who's stupid? Rachel, Lucy, Esperanza, and Nenny."

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"Cathy is gone like I knew she would be, but I don't care. I have two new friends and a bike too."

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"i will most likely go to hell I deserve to be there."

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"When I am too sad and too skinny to keep keeping, when I am a tiny thing against so many bricks, then it is I look at trees. When there is nothing left to look at on this street. Four who grew despite concrete. Four who reach and do not forget to reach. Four whose reason is to be and be."

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"Today we are Cinderella because our feet fit exactly."

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""Most likely I will go to hell and most likely I deserve to be there. My mother says I was born on an evil day and prays for me."