Dad believed people were like money. You could be a thousanddollar person or a hundreddollar person even a ten five or onedollar person. Below that everybody was just nickels and dimes. To my dad we were pennies. Fourteenyearold Manny Hernandez wants to be more than just a penny. He wants to be a vato firme the kind of guy people respect. But thats not easy when your father is abusive your brother cant hold a job and your mother scrubs the house as if she can wash her troubles away. In Mannys neighborhood the way to get respect is to be in a gang. But Mannys not sure that joining a gang is the solution. Because after all its his life and he wants to be the one to decide what happens to it.Dad believed people were like money. You could be a thousanddollar person or a hundreddollar person even a ten five or onedollar person. Below that everybody was just nickels and dimes. To my dad we were pennies. Fourteenyearold Manny Hernandez wants to be more than just a penny. He wants to be a vato firme the kind of guy people respect. But thats not easy when your father is abusive your brother cant hold a job and your mother scrubs the house as if she can wash her troubles away. In Mannys neighborhood the way to get respect is to be in a gang. But Mannys not sure that joining a gang is the solution. Because after all its his life and he wants to be the one to decide what happens to it.
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