Word: consuelo
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...with a vengeance, seemingly contradicting his own heart, as he shelters and feeds his grown children without being able to demonstrate the affection he so clearly feels for them. These four are the offspring of his second wife Lenore, who died when the eldest, Manuel, was 8, Roberto 6, Consuelo 4, and Marta...
Lenore died shortly after Marta was born. Manuel, the oldest, was eight at the time. "I was asleep on a mat on the floor next to my brother Roberto. My little sisters, Consuelo and Marta, slept on the bed with my mamá and papá. As though in a dream, I heard my father calling. He called to us when he saw my mother slipping away from him. I was always a sound sleeper and my father had to shout. 'Get up, you bastards! Hijos de la chingada! Your mother is dying and you lying there. On your...
...slum girl, Consuelo got a good education: grammar school and trade school, where she learned to type. She went to work for a businessman, lost her job when she refused to let him make love to her. Despite her revulsion of sex, Consuelo finally let herself be seduced. "Caray," she says. "So many things have happened to me since then. What can I do to stop punishing myself? Was it bad luck or bad faith that was my undoing. Not a day goes by when I do not have some filthy proposition, nor a powerful reason to accept...
...irony in the Sánchez story: by working doggedly through the years, "the father who never aspired to be more than a simple worker managed to raise himself out of the lower depths of poverty, whereas the children have remained at that level." The reason is given by Consuelo, the poet...
...Consuelo, would look at it, wonderingly. 'What might this be? Is it, could it be, what I have been looking...