I mean that's kind of my point She came from a community that was, by and large, dirt poor and that had eaten tortillas as a staple food for generations and that's just how they said it
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Yeah they've all got parent's credit cards backing up that lifestyle. I definitely didn't!
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.....still glad I got out of Tennessee. "My people" in 1981 turned out to be the other refugees on the Island of Misfit Toys known as early East Village. Pre-gentrification
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And the frustration of knowing that however I perfected my English - the elevated form of English, not the redneck kind, the kind that smoothly peppers in French and Italian and Latin and Japanese loanwords, to signal that you're a citizen of the world - it wouldn't work
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There's more to being a citizen of the world than the lingo, and I'm never going to be that, I'm always going to have my very specific history written on my face and in my baggage
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