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Mariana was a total chatterbox all the way home. Her fingers wouldn’t stop flying over her phone screen as she sent text after text.
It started innocently enough with me apologizing that I didn’t have my own set of wheels to just drive to her trailer, but she assured me it was no problem because barely anyone in her family owned a vehicle; there was four between the whole lot of them. She was used to walking.
Then, she mentioned that Felipe was saving to get himself a car, and I made the mistake of asking which one he was. I remembered him being a year younger than me in school and knew he was part of the Ruiz clan, but I wasn’t sure how Mari was related to him.
Instead of just telling me they were first cousins, she proceeded to explain her entire family tree. Most of it, I was
