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White to move and mate in two #609 - Solito [1]
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Date: 2025-01-02
“She crossed through San Ysidro, jumped a murito, walked up a hil-ita, and ran into a car-ito that drove her up a long road, the biggest road she’s ever seen, past Los Ángeles, past San Francisco, to San Rafael, where your dad was waiting for her.” As Mali says this, she acts out the verbs with her hands. Two down-turned fingers moving forward and backward means Mom is running. A wave is Mom jumping. An air steering wheel is Mom riding inside a “car-ito.”
I’ve heard this story a thousand times, but never the details. I know the big picture: she left, got there in two weeks. She ran, she jumped, she hid, she drove. ¿Who drove her? I want to see the mountains she ran down, the trees that that grow there. The fence. ¿Is it made of bricks? ¿Barbwire? ¿Is it tall? The roads, ¿are they dirt or asphalt? ¿Wide or narrow? I want details, but I don’t think Mali knows more than what she’s told me, and when she speaks, I stay quiet. It’s something I don’t like about myself. I’m too shy. At school, the cool kids make fun of me and I don’t say anything. I hide.
I know my parents wanted me to wait until I got older. I hope they don’t still think I’m too small. I’m not, I’m nine years old, but I can already jump the fence that separates our house from the neighbors’ pretty fast. And it’s made of barbwire. When our dog, La Bonita, chases one of the iguanas that live in our big avocado tree into Niña Yita’s land, I dive under it like she does, or climb the wooden poles the barbwire is wrapped around, and make it over. I’ve never gotten hurt. Not a single scratch.
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