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40 A Cupboard Full of Halos After he fills the junk drawer in the kitchen with wreaths made from scraps of paper, cloth, and sticks, Fidelito stores new ones in a cupboard above the stove. He drags a stool from the garage and sets it to reach the place where Maria Elena keeps cookbooks. In the multi-hued halos go, forced. Some of them tumble out like hula-hoops onto linoleum. Others become bracelets and slide down his arms as he reaches up to stop them. When he closes the door, Fidelito forgets until his mother, ready to cook, opens the cupboard. They spill to her from the dark, a noise of coins from another world. ...

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