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“Don’t he afraid,” she said.

He cupped her breast and held her. He put his other hand on her other breast. She moved the zipper down. He put his face to her cleavage. He smelled her. He breathed her all in. All the sugar and her sweat and her perfume and he could smell her lotion and her shampoo and her laundry soap and he pressed his mouth to her and said, “Could you call me Willie?” And she sighed and pulled the material aside. He took her nipple in his mouth.

“Willie,” she said.

He had just begun to weep when the bell dinged and Butchie came into the shop.

About Luis Alberto Urrea

Born in Tijuana, Mexico, to a Mexican father and an American mother, Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of fourteen books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and essays.
The Devil’s Highway
, his 2004 nonfiction account of a group of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert, won the Lannan Literary Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His historical novel,
The Hummingbird’s Daughter
, which involved twenty years of research and writing, won the Kiriyama Prize in fiction and was included on numerous book-of-the-year lists. Urrea lives with his family in Naperville, Illinois, where he is a professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois–Chicago. His most recent novel is
Queen of America
.
www.luisurrea.com

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