"Mi madre aprendió a leer a los 63"
"Mi madre aprendió a leer a los 63"

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“Why? Did someone there do something to you? Did someone hurt you? Tell me, Mama, please.”
“No, no, no.” She looked at her hands, which held little damp wads of tissue. Her fingernails had tiny specks of nail polish here and there.
“I couldn’t stand it no more. I couldn’t learn no more.”
I kneeled in front of her. “Were you having trouble in your classes?” I whispered.
Mama took a deep breath and looked at me through her tears.
“I just realized how much I don’t know,” she said. “All these years, I didn’t know how much I didn’t know.”