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“Why get us anything then pa?” I remember asking him as a young girl.
“So that you can have something to open and to learn to be thankful for.” He grumbled as he eyed my mother who always stood across the room quietly without saying a word. “If I get you gloves and a hat, I expect to see a smile on your face and a thank you come out of your mouth. Entiendes?”
I always cried and ran to my room while my sister stayed in the room with my parents and drank Ponche Navideno, which was kind of like a Mexican Fruit punch with chunks of fruit hibiscus tea, giving me another reason to be upset with her as she spent time with my Mom and Dad. We were the only ones of the Vasquez family that lived in the United States, so often Christmas was the one time my father would allow my mother to call their home town to talk with family members, yet another thing that I always missed out on because of my stubbornness.
Twenty years later I was husbandless and the only thing I wanted for Christmas was for Tito, my boyfriend for the past eight years to get down on one knee and propose to me under the big Christmas tree downtown. Based on my father’s guidance from years ago, I would settle for Tito to propose during the commercial break during the super bowl, so long as I had someone to spend the rest of my life and that would give me the excuse to move out of my parents’ home and from the way that I was looking at it, this weekend could be it.
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Nice chunk of backstory–and glimpse into her psyche, Neva! Based on the guidance her father gave her, I can’t imagine how she could have a good life. I’m feeling bad for her already.
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Congratulations on your latest release Neva. The heartbreaking thing about this piece is how common it is. So many people out there are so unhappy and begrudging of sharing any joy. Nicely done, I look forward to see how this progresses.
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Thank you Kim. 🙂
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Sadness ahead for this already sad girl. Look for the silver lining, dear Neva.
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Oh yes, something big is coming. 🙂
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Wow, quite the situation she’s in, and her backstory (which you presented so well) is sad. Nit: Super Bowl is capitalized…excellent excerpt and character development.
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Thanks, I’ll fix that. 🙂
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Great character-building here! I hope Tito steps up, but he’s already had 8 Super Bowls and lots of commercial breaks to do so. I’m not too optimistic. 🙂
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She’s hoping for a really romantic proposal, isn’t she? I’d worry about the kind of marriage she’d have, with those low expectations.
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“…I would settle for Tito to propose during the commercial break during the super bowl.” ROTFL!
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It’s one thing to be raised to appreciate what you have, but it seems her father raised her to settle for “anything”, that is sad. I also noted how the father ALLOWED the mother to call family once a year. Such control and training daughters to settle for less, he set them/her up to have terrifically low self-esteem. I hope if Tito does step up and propose that he is worth the commitment because we know how quickly she will accept.
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