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01 The House On Mango Street

The House on Mango Street

We didn't always live on Mango Street.

Before that we lived on Loomis on the third floor, and before that we lived on Keeler.

Before Keeler it was Paulina, and before that I can't remember.

But what I remember most is moving a lot.

Each time it seemed there'd be one more of us.

By the time we got to Mango Street we were sixMama, Papa, Carlos, Kiki, my sister Nenny and me.

The house on Mango Street is ours, and we don't have to pay rent to anybody, or share the yard with the people downstairs, or be careful not to make too much noise, and there isn't a landlord banging on the ceiling with a broom.

But even so, it's not the house we'd thought we'd get.

We had to leave the flat on Loomis quick. The water pipes broke and the landlord wouldn't fix them because the house was too old.

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