"Do you sometimes wish you didn't have to go home? Do you wish your feet would one day keep walking and take you far away from mango street, far away and maybe your feet would stop in front of a house, a nice one with flowers and big windows and steps for you to climb up two by two upstairs to where a room is waiting for you. And if you opened the window latch and gave it a shove, the windows would swing open, all the sky would come in. There'd be no nosey neighbors watching, no motorcycles and cars, no sheets and towels and laundry. Only trees and more trees and plenty of blue sky. And you could laugh. You could go to sleep and wake up and never have to think who likes and who doesn't like you. You could close your eyes and you wouldn't have to worry what people said because you never belonged here anyway and nobody could make you sad and nobody would think you're strange because you like to dream and dream. And no one would yell at you if they saw you out in the dark leaning against a car, leaning against somebody without thinking you are bad, without somebody saying it is wrong, without the whole world waiting for you to make a mistake when all you wanted, all you wanted, was to love and to love and to love and to love, and no one could call that crazy."
- Sandra Cisneros "The House On Mango Street" ♥
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Your 80s Theme Song is Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' by Michael Jackson
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