A Girl Named Rosita

Question 1

In a tiny cottage tucked between El Yunque Peak and a wild fragrant rainforest lives a girl

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Question 2

A girl with the rhythm of the rainforest in her feet and the sweetness of the sugarcane fields in her swishing skirts.

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Question 3

Step, turn, snap-kick, swish, jump, twirl!

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Question 4

We are moving to the mainland.

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Question 5

He will come later.

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Question 6

I am taking you first because you are a big girl and you won’t cry.

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Question 7

I am taking you first because you are a big girl and you won’t cry.

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Question 8

After days of wobbly decks and stormy seas, a statue of a woman wearing a crown rises up to greet them.

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Question 9

Where are the trees and flowers?

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Question 10

They will be back in summer.

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Question 11

When she wakes, she does the one thing Mama thought she wouldn’t - she cries.

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Question 12

Run so the bullies don’t catch you.

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Question 13

Out of the cold and away from the noise, she returns to a home that isn’t home.

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Question 14

If she only knew more ingles, she could tell the bullies Dejenme en paz! Leave me alone!

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Question 15

Is leaving behind her native Spanish like letting go of her native island and all the things she loves?

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Question 16

Day after day, she practices until she can speak ingles perfectly.

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Question 17

I am five years old.

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Question 18

Strum strum strum!

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Question 19

Onstage she is home.

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Question 20

Why not me?

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Question 21

I can be a leading lady too.

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Question 22

Then - a miracle happens.

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Question 23

Her palms are sweating as she shakes the hand of the man who can change her life.

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Question 24

Sign her!

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Question 25

This time the movie studio chooses.

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Question 26

Please, she prays.

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Question 27

Anything but Orchid!

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Question 28

I’ve got it!

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Question 29

Years after teaching herself to speak perfect ingles, she must fake an all-purpose accent to play maidens, slaves, and Spanish spitfires: the only roles Hollywood will give to a Latina.

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Question 30

Some days she wants to quit.

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Question 31

But she has come too far to give up.

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Question 32

One day she will play an authentic character who is bold, proud, strong.

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Question 33

For a month, she practices.

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Question 34

Then cue the music: horns, strings, percussion!

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Question 35

The role is hers.

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Question 36

A sacred silence descends.

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Question 37

A collective breath is held.

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Question 38

Who will take home the award?

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Question 39

May I have the envelope, please?

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Question 40

She won!

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Question 41

She did it!

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Question 42

I can’t believe it!