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On March 31, Rosalita asks her son Salomon if his homework is finished. She is trying to get him into private school and is proud of his native fluency in English—she moved to the United States in middle school and did not master the second language as well as she’d like. Salomon shows his mother the airplane captain pin that Ardie recently gave him. Rosalita feels a pang of sadness and jealousy—she has never been on an airplane, while Ardie’s been on so many that she can give pins away to other people’s kids. She doesn’t want this piece of the office in their house and takes the pin, telling Solomon that he might get hurt if he sleeps with it.
At Truviv, the cleaning staff cannot park in the lot. This rule is intended to make it harder for the cleaning staff to steal. Rosalita tells Crystal not to eat the candies from the secretaries’ desk. Rosalita drops the pilot pin in a trash bag, telling herself that she’s doing what is best for her son, not herself. After knocking twice on the corner office door with no answer, Rosalita enters. She sees Katherine and hears a man’s Plus, gain access to 8,550+ more expert-written Study Guides. Including features:
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