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[inaudible conversations] Richard Blanco what is los cocuyos . Its a firefight. Technically its a kind of a firefly that is very, its very mythical in cuba as well as south florida where i grew up and there is sort of a full tale and folklore. Women used to clip beatles on as a reporting ritual. Thats part of the title but its also the name of my uncles Grocery Store in the book which is kind of where i grew up in a way, kind of where i came to really connect with my culture and my heritage by working a cuban Grocery Store in miami. The book takes its title from that store and the idea of prints los cocuyos the old adage is it takes a village. The book centers a lot around the growing up in being sort of ushered in connected to my heritage by cubanamerican heritage through all the various people in the village in my commun ....
They realize, and they have no idea exactly where their debt has been. In this particular story in my book, i talked to these consumers, and they dont their debt, theres two women whose stories i follow, and they pay someone that calls them that has all the information that would give me or you confidence; Social Security number, address, you open the account, okay, well pay this. Or the Credit Report like youre saying. They start making calls, who did i pay . Well, they paid the guy that stole this debt. And what happens, and this goes back to my book, as the banker that bought this debt for pennies on the dollar, he starts getting calls from these collectors saying, hey, these debtors that were talking to are saying they paid someone else. Somehow this debt has been stolen at which point the banker, whos one of main characters in the book, calls his associate and says youve ....
Juxtaposition to my grandmother who was a big character in the story it was very and xenophobic so how she shaped my life as well and part of the reason i became an engineer was because of that and in pursuit of a career in the arts early on. In this book you sort of see you are reading i would hope you are reading with the context of this little kid who i am showing you eventually grows up and has this amazing moment in history. Wide view open the story with a wave of . Host in some ways she is the cause of a lot of trauma and she was very verbally abusive and very homophobic as i said and xenophobic. But on the flip side of that ironically in some way she made me a writer because she made me were withdrawn and maybe an observer of the world versus a participant. Also that led me to become, to learn how to read people. I had to know how to read people to know how to respond and not get called a you know what by her by others. All that power of observation and reading in between the li ....
Troops there. Abo yes, its been expensive, and we can talk about the cost and theo exaggerations that mr. Norquist had in terms of the cost, but having troops there as ambassadors of the United States, as representatives of all of us and free people everywhere has actually been positive. And just looking at the contras between south korea and north korea is a great example of whaf america can do thats good for the worldpo using all of its instruments of American Foreign policy. Ag now the 200 billion deficits that reagan ran up in the 1980s were the product of, a, tax cuts, but, b, a strong increasee in military spending that seemsr to have contributed to the end e of the cold war. Was that a worthwhile ss, investment, and is the world s better off, including us, because theres no soviet union and because Eastern Europe ....
Peace with her on her deathbed, so to speak, but at that age she was already in her early 80s, and, you know, again, ilts als a generational thing, so i didnt officially come out to her like i came out to my mother and the rest of the family. But she always insisted i was a confirmed bachelor but i would have children. At one point she offered me 10,000 to marry someone. This was my grandmother. You didnt know whether to laugh or cry. I wanted to take the money, but then when i said yes, sort of half fooling around, she said, okay, ill give you 5,000 when you get married, then 2,000 for every time you have a kid. So as i already said, my grandmother was the smartest and dumbest person i ever met in the world. When did you hfirst start what was it about poetry that attracted you . Ive always had a left brainright brain ive always delved in both worlds since i was a little kid. Some of that is in the book as well, sort of the engineer mind as well as the artistic mind. So but again, the ....