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Keeping My Name

Amilcar Hernandez

Publisher: Amilcar Hernandez

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A collection of cross-border stories some painful some not so much:A boy's painful experience with a gangster stepfatherA boy's experience of the 1962 Cuban Missile CrisesThe wisdom of an old man to his great-grandsonA boy wants to show the adults he is not a childA child teaches the true meaning of sharingFeeling lonely on New YearA young recruit does not change his nameA narrow escape with deathBacking out of a weddingMother's Day will never be the same
Available since: 05/08/2019.

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