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Submitted to Contest #323
Juan Pablo I was with my abuelo, Juan Pablo, the day he succumbed to madness. He was my hero. I grew up in the pueblo of Colula, not far from the city of Oaxaca, Mexico. My grandparents, Juan Pablo and Maria Teresa, helped my parents raise all six of us brothers. We lived on a small, dusty chicken farm behind the town square. Juan Pablo and my father, Jose Luis, built our rectangular home out of cinder blocks. It wasn’t much, but it had two bedrooms and a working toilet. My hermanos and I slept on couches and sleeping bags all over the kitc...
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A Man and His MusicJeaninne Escallier KatoSet Up (Act I) Flashback: 1956 Suburban Van Nuys, California, dotted with old citrus ranches, duplex apartments, and new tract homes.On a warm spring day, Marilyn rushes to the local Catholic school to catch her son’s kindergarten performance. She is late because her two-year-old daughter pulled the iron off the ironing board, slightly burning her arm. Marilyn doesn’t drive, so she pushes her crying toddler in a stroller. When she tiptoes in through the back auditorium door, she sees her young son, A...
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