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The Nine Lives of Maria La Gata

Maria La Mamá

Fifth Installment of Writing and Entrepreneurship Workshop for Latinas, aka Brujeria Navigation 101.

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Chapter 5: Maria La Mamá

When Maria busts out the back double doors of the dressing room to 143rd Street, she inhales the exhaust of Model-T cars and exhales the creeping shadows of shame. The last five hours did not happen. There aren’t twelve single dollars tucked into her shawl. There isn’t a clacking sound coming from her heels on the pavement. And …

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