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19 I Know You Little Codfish The phrases of our fathers creep up as we grow older providing the voice-over to our daily life.¡Te conozco bacalao! when we are fooled by the world,¡Ave Maria Puríssima! when we are left to exclamate. These words surprise us in the sea of our daily English, appear like flotsam from a shipwreck long believed to be submerged. They reveal memory to be the master of a treasure more profound than any English we may have mastered. ...

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