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Paso del Norte
The day my younger brother, Billy, told me he enlisted, I figured the only rational thing to do was to take one last trip down to Juarez before he shipped out to basic in Georgia. We used to go every few months, back when my wife, Flora, was driving a bus for the city. We didn’t have a lot of money back then. I was unemployed, and I spent most my days watching a lot of television. Billy was working at a gas station just outside of Phoenix. It was a Saturday morning when he called. I was asleep on the couch, and Flora was in the kitchen making coffee.“Well,” he said into the receiver, “I done screwed up, Dill.” I heard the clinking of ice in a glass and the groan of his leather recliner.
The day my younger brother, Billy, told me he enlisted, I figured the only rational thing to do was to take one last trip down to Juarez before he shipped out to basic in Georgia. We used to go every few months, back when my wife, Flora, was driving a bus for the city. We didn’t have a lot of money back then. I was unemployed, and I spent most my days watching a lot of television. Billy was working at a gas station just outside of Phoenix. It was a Saturday morning when he called. I was asleep on the couch, and Flora was in the kitchen making coffee.“Well,” he said into the receiver, “I done screwed up, Dill.” I heard the clinking of ice in a glass and the groan of his leather recliner.