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Kip wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 20, 2019 4:17 pm

I got one of the biggest compliments this week. Every day, there's a dude who sells steamed corn on the cob out of ziploc bags at the intersection where I turn to pick up Kristi and the kids. I chat with him while I wait for the light pretty often. He asked if I was 'boricua' (Puerto Rican) this week. He could tell I wasn't a native Dominican, but spoke well enough he thought I was Latino in our brief conversations. I've heard similar things before, usually from someone who has something to potentially gain from me - which leads me to take the comment with a grain of salt. But, I've never bought his corn, nor given any indication I was in the market. It was (at least in my mind) an unsolicited, motive-neutral comment. I'll take it.

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