Abuela Invents the Zero Storyboard - Ruthie
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- Times were so hard for la familia on la isla, and la abuela worked day and night when papa died of a heart attack. I was the youngest sibling.
- I bet I'd die of a heart attack if I had to support a troop like that!
- I hope we're almost at the spaceport.
- It was the year 3023, and my Abuela, who lived on a tiny island on Earth all her life, was visiting us on Kepler-452b for the first time. The one standing in the back is me, Connie.
- Abuela!
- Why does Mom think that I'll act like a monster? Not to Abuela!
- Back on Kepler-452b, we parked our car/spaceship/boat next to our house. It was January and we had two feet of snow. Despite the weather, Abuela refused to let my mom buy her a coat, so she walked around looking ridiculous in my mom's oversized one! The next day...
- No way, huh. If you take Abuela to mass, you can go to that fashion show you like, entiendes?
- Mom has the flu. I'll stay home with her and you take Abuela to mass. You have to, you know she's more Catholic than the Pope!
- No way! I'm about to go out with friends, this is really not the right time to ask.
- I need to get the car keys and go!
- I understand. I'm outta here!
- Excuse us, con permiso, pardon us.
- On Sunday at ten o'clock Abuela and I were at mass. The sight of her little bun sticking out of her huge coat made me want to run back home and hide under my covers. I obviously couldn't do that. She slowly shuffled around and finally found a pew, probably the most inconvenient one in the room.
- I'll help this poor old lady!
- I can't move! I'm so embarrassed. Abuela, just disappear. Oh no, on Monday everyone will be making grandmother jokes at school! Oh my gosh.
- Abuela went through mass singing and praying loudly. She went up to take the Eucharist, and to my horror, she couldn't find her way back to our pew!
- You made me feel like a zero, like a nothing!
- We got home and this happened.
- I don't understand why she's so upset. She just got lost and wandered for a little.
- You know Constancia, if it wasn't for the old woman whose existence you don't seem to value, you and I would not be here.
- I felt myself shrinking right in front of her. But, I couldn't to apologize. That's when I was sent to my room to contemplate a number I hadn't much thought about, until that day.
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