13: Mushroom

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"So, what's your age, Mitch? You look so young." Asked my dad eating intestine cow tacos. They have to taste better than the name suggests, that's his second one.

"I'm 23, I just finished college last year

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"I'm 23, I just finished college last year." He said.

"And what do you do for a living, Mitch?" Asked Connie trying to eat the big plate of menudo, a spicy red broth of cow stomach.

"And what do you do for a living, Mitch?" Asked Connie trying to eat the big plate of menudo, a spicy red broth of cow stomach

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Scott was trying the quesadillas of flor de calabaza and champiñones ... Squash flower and mushrooms quesadillas with handmade tortillas.

 Squash flower and mushrooms quesadillas with handmade tortillas

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What is Taco Bell? 

What is life about?

"Nothing to do with what he studied in college. With the money we spend on his education... All the times I woke up earlier to take him there..." said his father dramatically.

"My college was free, Dad, and I drove myself every day." Said Mitch hitting his dad's shoulder softly. "Even without a license."

"Didn't you have a license?" Connie asked.

"Your college was free?" Asked Rick completely freaking out.

"I had God's and my parent's permission and I studied gastronomy in the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma De Puebla... And yeah, it's free, the State pays for it, you just pay a small fee every year, nothing excessive, obviously you have to be smart to enter but the struggle is worth it, and I...Well... I'm a drag queen and work in Puebla 3 days a week, and the rest of the time, I work at my parents' gelato shop."

"Wow... A drag queen... And why is that?"

"Well, I like singing and makeup, dresses... Those things. It is just something I tried once and I couldn't stop. My boyfriend hates it, but my parents support me and that's what really matters to me."

"And why Pablo hates it?" Asked Scott intrigued. He loved Mitch as Rossie Peach.

"He hates that it's in at night, on weekends, there are a lot of men and there is alcohol... But I don't drink..."

"Except when you do." Said Nel, Mitch's mother.

"I did it in college, but I learned my lesson. It was a hard lesson."

"What happened?' asked Rick.

"Police arrested me for three days because I was drinking in the car with my friends. We had beers and tequila there."

"Ohh my God." Scott's mother covered his mouth.

"Yeah." Mitch's mom said. "The police called us at two in the morning and said he would be there for three days if we didn't pay the bail. And I said ok, keep him there. At least there I know where he is."

"That's so cruel," Scott said.

"Well, we are good parents, not nice parents. And he learned that he doesn't have to be drunk while driving and even if he is not driving."

"And the food wasn't that bad, the bed was concrete but we had television... But is not something I want to do again.

"You better." sentenced his father.




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