04 My Name
My Name
In English my name means hope.
In Spanish it means too many letters.
It means sadness, it means waiting.
It is like the number nine.
A muddy color.
It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing.
It was my great-grandmother's name and now it is mine.
She was a horse woman too, born like me in the Chinese year of the horse—which is supposed to be bad luck if you're born female—but I think this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the Mexicans, don't like their women strong.
My great-grandmother.
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