Daniel"s mother never taught her children how to speak Spanish. She seemed to think it was a hindrance to their new lives in Los Angeles. Los Angeles was far away from where she was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico - a small suburb of San Juan where the university was located. Perhaps, if Daniel was born in Rio Piedras, then he may have attended the University of Puerto Rico and would have met other female Puerto Ricans and married one. Perhaps, he could have grown up knowing and speaking Spanish the way Puerto Ricans do - fast and with a Caribbean dialect peppered with Taino or African words like mofongo and gandul. Maybe he could have fit in more if his grandmother never moved to the States in the 30s. To those Puerto Ricans living on the island, Daniel was not a true Boricua because he
