How my Cousin Manuel Brought Home a Wife
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- I thought she would weep.
- “There, there, Mei Lu,”“He is a grown man, hehas his own life,”
- “What kind of Brazilian?”
- ffrom manuel
- “Twenty years he stayed away,”
- “He’s bringing home his Brazilian wife,”
- “I don’t know,”
- “I speak little English...”
- “Sssh...”“Dope,man. That’s where the action is, haven’t you heard?”“Wait, my wife’s with me,”“Consuelo, este e o meo primo. My cousin Carlos.”“Carlos, mi esposa,Consuelo.”
- “Such a big guy you are now, Ah Puy,”“Where’s your stuff?”
- “I can help, maybe?”
- “Consuelo, this is mymother Rosario. She’s been dying to meet you. She’s a soprano.”
- “It’s okay, Consuelo,”“Elaesta so umpouco cansada.”
- “She’s not feeling all that well,”“Oh no, she’sjust a bit fatigued.”
- “Oh, is she sick?”
- “Excuse me,”
- “Come on, Consuelo, give it one more slot,”
- “I can walk,”“I can walk,”“after all these years.“Bless you; you arean angel of the Lord.”
- She’s now a widow,you moron,I curse you this dayrefugees’ camp of a factory turn into a nursery
- “Yes, she’salmost cured.”
- “Lavante—se...” sheordered. “Stand up.Standup...“Levante—se,”
- “No mas, no mas,”“No mas, no mas.”
- “Please, don’t stop, save her.”
- “Vaya con Dios,”
- “Let us all pray,”
- “You all leave.”
- “Water,”“Water,”
- “No,”
- “Where am I?”“What happened?”
- alright,”“Your mother willlive.”
- “Call the nurses... the doctors...”
- After Consuelo's death, there were reports about a "black widow" in Jolo who could cure any ailment. I never checked out the story and she has since moved to Malaysia. On the first anniversary of their arrival in Manila, I received a postcard from Rio signed Manuel and Consuelo.
- Samantha and Nic-Nic's baby Consuelo, who has Sam's thin lips and eyes, points at something in the early evening sky. I look up thinking she's discovered another constellation and know my life will never be the same.
- I'd probably never know the whole truth about my cousin Manuel. Or what myAunt Mei Lu and cousin Consuelo said to each other in their fifteen minutes togetherness. But I know it shouldn't be bothering me as I sit here in the veranda of our beach house in Bauang, La Union.
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