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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549774" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Day of the Refugios</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">&nbsp; In Mexico and Latin America, celebrating one's<br>&nbsp; Saint's day instead of one's birthday is common.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I was born in Nogales, Arizona,<br>On the border between <br>Mexico and the United States.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The places in between places<br>They are like little countries<br>Themselves, with their own holidays</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Taken a little from everywhere.<br>My Fourth of July is from childhood,<br>Childhood itself a kind of country, too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's a place that's far from me now,<br>A place I'd like to visit again.<br>The Fourth of July takes me there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In that childhood place and border place<br>The Fourth of July, like everything else,<br>It meant more than just one thing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the United States the Fourth of July<br>It was the United States.<br>In Mexico it was the d&iacute;a de los Refugios,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The saint's day of people named Refugio.<br>I come from a family of people with names,<br>Real names, not-afraid names, with colors</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like the fireworks: Refugio,<br>Margarito, Matilde, Alvaro, Consuelo,<br>Humberto, Olga, Celina, Gilberto.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Names that take a moment to say,<br>Names you have to practice.<br>These were the names of saints, serious ones,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And it was right to take a moment with them.<br>I guess that's what my family thought.<br>The connection to saints was strong:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mu grandmother's name--here it comes--<br>Her name was Refugio,<br>And my great-grandmother's name was Refugio,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And my mother-in-law's name now,<br>It's another Refugio, Refugios everywhere,<br>Refugios and shrimp cocktails and sodas.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fourth of July was a birthday party<br>For all the women in my family<br>Going way back, a party</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For everything Mexico, where they came from,<br>For the other words and the green<br>Tinted glasses my great-grandmother wore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These women were me,<br>What I was before me,<br>So that birthday fireworks in the evening,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All for them,<br>This seemed right.<br>In that way the fireworks were for me, too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still, we were in the United States now,<br>And the Fourth of July,<br>Well, it was the Fourth of July.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But just what that meant,<br>In this border place and time,<br>it was a matter of opinion in my family.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alberto+R%26iacute%3Bos">Alberto R&iacute;os</a><div class=q>
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I was born in Nogales, Arizona,
On the border between 
Mexico and the United States.

The places in between places
They are like little..."></div>
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