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“Everyone else seems to just know stuff and I—I don’t. It’s like I’m the only one. I don’t even know how I got in sometimes, that’s how hard it is, how much I’m messing up.”
“I didn't want to say that what she thought of as the law was probably very much open for debate [...] more complicated than my mom wanted to admit.”
Mami is talking about the Ariel Hernandez case at dinner just before Lizet leaves to return to Rawlings. Lizet is skeptical of Mami’s insistence that Ariel will not be deported, wondering if Mami totally understands the laws that she claims to know by heart. Lizet is aware of her own sense of superiority in this knowledge, though she doesn’t realize that it makes Mami feel inferior.
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By Jennine Capó Crucet