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“Mom, I keep telling you. You’ve gone native.” After spending all but a few weeks of the last four years in Mexico, immersed in a different life, what is one to expect? My first intimation that I needed to be alert to where I am, “one world” notwithstanding, came when the man who assisted me at LA International with a wheelchair, zoomed me through customs, held my hand through security and escorted me to my next gate, gave me a raised-eyebrow, incredulous stare, when I gr...
Anybody who knows me well knows I already have a pretty solid repertoire of swear words and the last thing I need, suffering under the stress of this week, is another four-letter word to sprinkle into my conversations like red chilis on pizza. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not trying to brag. I simply took to cussing as a natural. It was obvious that, even as a first-grader, my grasp of grammatically proper usage of cuss words in a variety of situations was advanced well beyond my peers’. We can all thank my dad for that. I’m s...
