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-Cathy is her best friend
-Her family is poor
-They live in a bad neighborhood

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-Her friend Cathy has a lot of cats
-They move a lot

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She has a different type of hair from the rest of her family.

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She would rather have her name be Zeze The X

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She wants to have a nice big house

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She made two friends by paying them $5

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When people hear music box they usually think that it would be a decorated little box with a little ballerina.

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When people hear the statue of liberty they think of the giant statue on the coast of New York but this could also mean about freedom and liberty.

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She doesn't have that many friends

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She doesn't seem sociable because she has a lack of friends

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They didn't always live on Mango Street, they have always moved from place to place.

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The house was fully theirs. They didn't have to pay rent but it wasn't the house they thought they'd get.

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The house was really small and tight on the inside.

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Everyone in her family has different hair.

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Her mom's hair is beautiful.

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The boys and girls live in separate worlds.

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Nenny can't play with the Vargas kids because Esperanza is afraid she'll turn out like them.

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Esperanza wishes she has a bestfriend all to her own. One who she can tell her secrets to. One that will understand her jokes without having to explain them.

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In English her names means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters.

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She doesn't like her name and she'd rather be it be Lisandra or Maritza or Zeze the X.

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She got her name from her great-grandmother.

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Cathy says that she is the great grand cousin of the queen of France

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Cathy has cats and cats and cats. Baby cats, big cats, skinny cats, sick cats, etc.

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Cathy's father will have to fly to France one day to find her great great distant grand cousin on her father's side and inherit the family house.

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She would pay $5 for a friend forever.

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They are trying to chip in to buy a bike from a kid named Tito.

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She meets two girls named Lucy and Rachel and they come from Texas.

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They bought the bike and agreed to take turns but for the day the bike was all theirs. They rode it all at once and they went fast and faster although they were wobbly because of the uneven weight.

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Nenny and Esperanza don't look alike. Not the same way you can tell Rachel and Lucy who have the same fat popsicle lips like everyone in their family.

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The way they laugh is also different from her Rachel and Lucy's shy ice cream bells' giggle.

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There was a junk store and an old man owns it.

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The store was small with just a dirty window for a light. He doesn't turn the lights on unless you have money to buy things with.

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The store has odd items such as tables with their feet upside down and rows and rows of refrigerators with round corners and couches that spin dust in the air when you punch them and a hundred TV's that doesn't work probably.

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They saw a pretty music box but it wasn't for sale.

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Meme Ortiz moved into Cathy's house after her family moved away.

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Meme has a dog with gray eyes, a sheepdog with two names, one in Engli

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Downstairs from Meme’s is a basement apartment that Meme’s mother fixed up and rented to a Puerto Rican family.

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Louie has another cousin and they only saw him once but he was important.