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Tío Lalo
Francisco is Mami's boyfriend in Brooklyn. He's ten years younger than she is and Tata doesn't like him. Negi and her siblings, however, love him because he's kind to them and to Mami. He's diagnosed with cancer around the same time that Mami becomes pregnant, and he dies not long after Franky is born.
Francisco Quotes in When I Was Puerto Rican
The When I Was Puerto Rican quotes below are all either spoken by Francisco or refer to Francisco. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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12. You Don't Want to Know
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Mami became, even more than before, both mother and father to us. We could count on her in a way we had never been able to count on Papi, Tata, or Francisco, who had made everyone happy for such a short time before dying and becoming a ghost that haunted us all for the rest of our lives.
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Francisco Quotes in When I Was Puerto Rican
The When I Was Puerto Rican quotes below are all either spoken by Francisco or refer to Francisco. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
12. You Don't Want to Know
Quotes
Mami became, even more than before, both mother and father to us. We could count on her in a way we had never been able to count on Papi, Tata, or Francisco, who had made everyone happy for such a short time before dying and becoming a ghost that haunted us all for the rest of our lives.
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