In Nueva YorkIn Nueva York is Nicholasa MohrÕs contribution of pathos and humor to the traditionally bleak depiction of life in New YorkÕs Puerto Rican barrio. |
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Page 6 - I ain't gonna do nothing to you. Besides, look at you. No use even bothering about you. You're a mess, filthy and you're half bald. Your ears are chewed off! Your eyes are running with some sort of disease; you're practically blind. Bah! What a sight you are. Look, you got half a tail left and your belly droops!