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Annabell 2022-03-01 08:01:27
coming-of-age ceremony
I don't think anyone but the Virgin Mary has ever heard stories of virgin pregnancies. The objective medical basis is: this is not impossible. The hymen is not a completely airtight city wall, think about the menstrual blood that pours down on those days of the month. Anatomical evidence is that...
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Audie 2022-03-01 08:01:27
What strikes the heart lies in the micro-knots of shadows.
In some Latin cultures, a girl's 15th birthday is held in an "adult style" to mark her maturity. Before her birthday, Madeleine was found to be pregnant by her family. She was kicked out of the house and stayed at a relative's house. She met a cousin who had homosexual tendencies who was also...
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Carlos: [at Tio Tomas' funeral] Tomas Alvarez was born in Jalisco, Mexico in 1921. The 13th kid out of 22. When he was born, he was so small, the midwife said he wasn't worth washing. But he ended up outliving all of them. In his life, he was an office boy, a barber and a farm worker. Then in America, he sold champurrado. Everybody knew him. If you walk down the street, he would stop every two minutes to talk to someone. They were always happy to see him.
[pauses]
Carlos: He had a love inside him that was so strong. It came from his heart and out through his eyes like a golden light. Everybody could see it, because he loved everyone and judged no one. At the end of my life, I will count it as my greatest privilege that I knew a saint. Because Tomas Alvarez was a saint. And he will not leave us. His spirit is still strong. He will be with us 'til the end of our days.
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Carlos: Nobody believes you, huh?
Magdalena: About what?
Carlos: "About what?", come on!
Magdalena: [pauses] No.
Carlos: Yeah, nobody believed me about anything all my life.
Magdalena: That's because you're a liar, and a thief, and a pothead. And a gay.
Carlos: [Makes face] So?
