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Submitted to Contest #245
She’s asking me about work. About how my young students are doing… if they’re learning Spanish as quickly as they are English. I tell her that they are. That they know how to count, recite the alphabet, and name shapes in both languages. I’m talking to her. And she is responding. I can see her. She is in front of me. With her short salt and peppered hair that’s more salt now than pepper. Her undeniably brown eyes. Her skin, always tanner than mine. Moles. Freckles. Slightly crooked nose. I’m looking down at her 4’11 stature to my 5’2. I grab...
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