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A young girl who is friends with the narrator of “My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn.” As the title makes clear, one of Lucy’s most defining traits is that she smells like corn, specifically in the form of “chips” and “tortillas.” Lucy is eccentric, but the narrator admires her, impressed by the fact that she dares to eat dog food. The narrator says that Lucy’s entire family—which consists of her parents and eight sisters—is dark-skinned. As Lucy and the narrator spend the day together, they play with handmade dolls and tease another little girl, Janey Ortiz, saying, “We’re never ever going to be your friend again forever!”
Lucy Anguiano Quotes in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
The Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories quotes below are all either spoken by Lucy Anguiano or refer to Lucy Anguiano. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn
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I’m sitting in the sun even though it’s the hottest part of the day, the part that makes the streets dizzy, when the heat makes a little hat on the top of your head and bakes the dust and weed grass and sweat up good, all steamy and smelling like sweet corn.
I want to rub heads and sleep in a bed with little sisters, some at the top and some at the feets. I think it would be fun to sleep with sisters you could yell at one at a time or all together, instead of alone on the fold-out chair in the living room.
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Lucy Anguiano Quotes in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
The Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories quotes below are all either spoken by Lucy Anguiano or refer to Lucy Anguiano. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn
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I’m sitting in the sun even though it’s the hottest part of the day, the part that makes the streets dizzy, when the heat makes a little hat on the top of your head and bakes the dust and weed grass and sweat up good, all steamy and smelling like sweet corn.
I want to rub heads and sleep in a bed with little sisters, some at the top and some at the feets. I think it would be fun to sleep with sisters you could yell at one at a time or all together, instead of alone on the fold-out chair in the living room.
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