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“He only moved to his own impulses, leaving his wife a cold, lonely and withered woman. This bothered Clarita for years -- how her father treated her mother with a lack of emotion, of connection. Santos never beat her mother, but he would give her a devastating look that caused her to wilt like a water-starved flower. Clarita recalled how as a little girl, she hid away in her room, beneath blankets surrounded by dirt-caked dolls, distressed that Santos would come in and destroy her with such a look.”

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Book:The Republic of East L.A.

Source: The Republic of East L.A.

“...he felt this gnawing emptiness cradled in anger, like he was owed something.”

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Book:The Republic of East L.A.

Source: The Republic of East L.A.