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Latin Moon In Manhattan

tead of a pet” (Manrique 73).

However, Santiago does not want to get married or have children any more than Mr. O’Donnell really wants to roam lose in the park instead of going home with him. Yet, because he is misunderstood and not accepted by his family, his employers, or myriad friends like the three poetasters who urge him to marry the rich drug-fortune heiress, Santiago feels displaced. His life consists of dodging the landlady because he only works part time and makes little money, avoiding the various crack addicts, Colombian drug lords and other unsavory denizens that roam his apartment sidewalks, and attending family and social obligations with all the enthusiasm of Mr. O’Donnell when pondering a potential visit to the veterinarian. His adolescence was the most unhappy period of his life and the thought of even looking in the classified advertisements for a full-time non-artistic occupation makes him as nauseous as when Mr. O’Donnell awakes him by leaping onto his chest with a semi-conscious mouse hanging victoriously from his mouth. Childhood was a time of few role models for Santiago, and aside from his

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