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Raimunda: Are there things I should know and don't?

Sole: Oodles.

Sole: Mom?

Irene: Hum?

Sole: There's something you want me to do, isn't?

Irene: Cut my hair.

Sole: I mean if there's something you couldn't do alive and doesn't let you rest.

Irene: There are always things undone. Or bad done. And my life has been no exception. Look, I don't know if I can fix them, but if I can, it's up to me to do it.

Sole: [after a long silence] Customers will arrive soon. What are we going to do?

Irene: We attend to them. I'll help you.

Sole: But I can't introduce you as my mother. They all know I'm an orphan.

Irene: Then I'll pretend to be foreign.

Sole: Foreign? Where from?

Irene: ¿Dominican?

Sole: No. There are lots of them on the neighborhood and they would notice the accent.

Irene: ¿Chinese? Madrid is full of Chinese people.

Sole: Who's going to believe that you're from China, mom?

[Thinks]

Sole: Something strange. Not very common around here... Rusian.

Irene: Do wou really think I look more Rusian than Chinese?

Sole: Yes. Rusian women are just like us, mom. Look, whatever you hear, keep your mouth shut. And it can't looked in your face that you understand us.