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Chapter 15 Summary
The Way of the Cross Procession on Holy Friday is unlike any other Procession of the past. For only the second time in her life (the first being to Albuquerque at the age of three), Loca ventures out of the house, riding her horse Gato Negro in the Procession to city and wearing Esperanza's blue chenille robe. Rubén found the robe early that morning in his house, having perhaps been directed by the spirit of Esperanza, whose presence he still feels and whom he never forgot, even during his marriage to the white chick with the sports car. Before bringing the robe to Loca, he bunches it up like a pillow and cries into it.
This year, the Procession is filled with people wearing photographs of loved ones who died from toxic exposure, and at each station someone speaks on the social and environmental calamities destroying the world, and their...
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