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"The warehouse." She spat the word like it was rotten. "You married a fiel girl, and now you forget your own gods?"

Her mother called from Santo Domingo every Saturday. "Mija, you're still cooking saag for that man? When will you teach him to eat mangú ? When will he take you to the bautizo of your own sobrina?" desi fiel

"I've been thinking," she said. "Maybe we don't have to pick. Maybe we can be desi and fiel . Both. At the same time." "The warehouse

His mother's face crumpled.

"Maa, I work Sundays now. The warehouse—" desi fiel

"You come to puja this Sunday," his mother said. "You haven't come in months. People are talking."