“Then let’s go. You’ll see. When you need something...”
He grabbed my hand angrily and began to drag me home. Then he thought of something to get revenge.
“Serves you right! You learned too soon, silly. Now you’ll have to start school in February.”
It had been Jandira’s idea. That way the house would be peaceful all morning long and I’d learn some manners.
“Let’s practise crossing the highway again. Don’t think that when you go to school I’ll be your nanny, taking you across all the time.
If you’re so clever, you can learn this too.” “Here’s the horse. Now, let’s see this.”
He opened the newspaper and showed me a sentence in an ad for a medicine.
“In all good pharmacies and drugstores,” I read. Uncle Edmundo went to get Gran from the backyard.
“Mother. He even read ‘pharmacies’ correctly.” They both started giving me things to read and I read everything.
Gran started muttering that all was lost. Uncle Edmundo gave me the horse and I hugged him again.
Then he held my chin and, in a wavering voice, said, “You’re going to go far, you little monkey.
It’s no accident your name’s José. You’ll be the sun, and the stars will shine around you.”
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