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Richard reads over the letter his mother had wrote him after reading his articles. He reliazes his relationship changed with his family.
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| To the adult I am today, my mother needs to tell me what she would never have needed to say to her child; the boy who faithfully kept family secretsâ€(Rodriguez,193) | |
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Richard stops home for christmas to spend time with his family.
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| "And that afternoon she seemed to accept the idea, granted me the right, freedom so cruical to aldulthood, to become a person very different in public from the person I am at home"(Rodriguez,206). | |
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Richard takes a coat outside to his father and placed it on him.Throughout the whole evening Richard's father has not said a word.
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| "In that instant I feel the thinness of his arms. He turns. He asks if I am going home now too. It is, I realize, the only thing he had said to me all evening(Rodriguez,212). | |
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