Freak Show

Yes, it always was so awkward to be a little redhead girl down there in Latin America. If we went anywhere outside the city we were like a freak show. All the little brown children would crowd around staring at us. It was weird. Obviously those children are not very educated, not educated enough to know how naive and silly they look staring at us that way, but anyway it made us very uncomfortable. Perhaps these brown people expect us white people to entertain them and make them laugh and put on a show for them but that is because brown people are very ignorant about these things, especially little brown children who may not even have shoes to wear and may never get a chance to learn how to read and write out there in the middle of nowhere. Sitting in a coffee shop some people stand around behind us taking about the "chelitas" meaning of course us. We cannot expect these ignorant brown people to have any level of understanding about who we are and our lives. There is not much time to say more than hello and goodbye. Sorry about that but we are not the property of Latin America. We are U.S. citizens and we are kind of busy having lives and getting ready to go back to the United States which is home to us. There is no reason to stay down there in a place that was only temporary even though we remember also and would mail you a pair of shoes if we could remember your name. I do not remember what I did with the elephants. They are stored away somewhere in the attic perhaps. If you want them come and get them, send your mailing address. Otherwise we have nothing else to say to these people who mean nothing else tous.