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And the last one on that
theme is entitled 1910.

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When I first started seriously
spending time writing,

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a lot of my initial
writing I felt,

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was really done with
somebody else, an aunt who

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was very dear to me.

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And, she was a
wonderful storyteller,

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a wonderful cuentista.

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The kind of storyteller
where we would all

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say, oh, not that story again.

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But they were wonderful stories
and they proved a great source

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of inspiration for me.

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Not only the concrete
details, but I

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think she as a spirit
is probably somebody

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I'll write about for
the rest of my life.

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In Mexico they bowed their
heads when she passed.

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Timid villagers stepped
aside for the judge's mother,

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Doña Luz.

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Who wore her black
shawl, black gloves

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whenever she left her home.

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At the church, the
Mercado, and the Plaza.

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In the cool evenings
when she strode

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barely touching her son's
wrist with her fingertips.

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Who wore her black
shawl, black gloves

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in the carriage that took
her and her family to Juarez,

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border town.

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Away from Via laughing
at their terror

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when he rode through the
village shouting spitting dust.

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Who wore her black shawl, black
gloves when she crossed the Rio

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Grande to El Paso.

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Her back straight, chin high,
never watching her feet.

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Who wore her black shawl,
black gloves into Upton's

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five and dime.

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Who walked out, back straight,
lips quivering, and slowly

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removed her shawl and gloves,
placed them on the sidewalk

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with the other shawls
and shopping bags.

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You Mexicans can't hide things
from me, often would say.

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Thieves.

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All thieves.

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Let me see those hands.

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Who wore her black shawl,
black gloves the day

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she walked, chin high,
never watching her feet,

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on the black beams
and boards still

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smoking that had been
Upton's five and dime.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And she said that
was a true story.

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